Viola lanceolata L. Description and illustrations: 6 photographs (1 of a hybrid) and 3 drawings An erect glabrous violet with long, narrow lanceolate leaves and white flowers all arising from a slender vertical rhizome. Red petioles, red leaf midrib and veins, red leaf margin glands, red peduncles and red tips of the sepals make this…
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Viola epipsila ssp repens
Viola epipsila subsp. repens Becker Description and illustrations of Viola epipsila subsp. repens: 6 photographs and 4 drawings This violet from arctic to sub-arctic climates is only 2-10 cm high with flowers of less than 1 cm. Its cold northern inland range, dwarf size and the position of the bracteoles near the top of the peduncle distinguish this…
Viola blanda
Viola blanda Willd. Description and illustrations of Viola blanda: 11 photographs (4 of hybrids) and 3 drawings The most common white flowered stemless violet in eastern North America is Viola blanda. It grows in shaded damp deciduous woodlands at lower elevations, flowering at the time the deciduous trees are leafing out, or even later. It…
Viola xsubsinuata
Viola xsubsinuata Greene (pro sp.) Unedited notes on Viola subsinuata; 3 photographs, no drawings Pittonia 4:4. 1899. (syn. V. palmata auct. non L., V. pedatifida x sororia) TM: Section Nosphinium, subsect. Boreali-Americanae [NEW classification, 2010]. Harvey Ballard, July 2005 & Michigan Botanist, 1994: V. xpalmata produces leaves early in the growing season and in the fall…
Viola septemloba
Viola septemloba LeConte Kim’s unedited notes, 2 photographs and 2 drawings of Viola septemloba Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York 2: 141. 1826. Boreali-Americanae. Major John Eatton LeConte (1784-1860) Normal H. Russell, Violets (Viola) of Central and Eastern United States: An Introductory Survey, SIDA 2 (1): 1-113. 1965, Lloyd H. Shinners: This pretty little violet…
Viola selkirkii
Viola selkirkii. Pursh ex Goldie Description and illustrations: 4 photographs and 3 drawings of Viola selkirkii This species is the sole North American representative of a predominantly Eurasian group of approximately two dozen species, all characterized by distinctly adnate stipules at the base of the petiole. This feature separates Viola selkirkii from all other blue-flowered…
Viola sagittata
Viola sagittata Kim’s unedited notes, 12 photographs and 3 drawings of Viola sagittata See also Notes on fritillaries Viola sagittata Ait. 2N=54, IPCN 86-87, Canne, J.M., 1987. William Aiton, 1731-1793. ‘sagittata’ means arrow-headed. TM: Section Nosphinium, subsect. Boreali-Americanae [NEW classification, 2010]. From Reveal, J.L. & J.S. Pringle. 1993. “Taxonomic…
Viola pedatifida, G Don.
Viola pedatifida. G. Don Kim’s unedited notes, 3 photographs and 3 drawings of Viola pedatifida (including one of Kim’s original pencil drawings) Boreali-Americanae. George Don, 1798-1856. ‘pedatifida’ means pedately divided. Viola pedatifida G.Don — Gen. Hist. 1: 320. 1831 (GCI) Viola pedatifida G.Don — Gen. Syst. i. 320. (IK) Viola pedatifida G.Don var. bernardii Greene…
Viola pedata L.
Viola pedata L. Description, 24 photographs of Viola pedata plants leaves and flowers, 4 drawings. Viola pedata, Blue Ridge Pkwy. April 2004) Viola pedata, endemic to North America, is one of the loveliest violets, distinctly different from all other species. Deeply divided leaves give this species its name, the divisions radiating from the center of…
Viola palmata L. (pro. sp.)
Viola palmata L. (pro. sp.) Kim’s unedited notes. Illustrations: 14 photographs of Viola palmata and xpalmata, 2 pencil drawings Viola xpalmata = V. sagittata x V. sororia. Sp. Pl.:933. 1753 (syn. V. esculenta Elliott, V. triloba Schwein., V. viarum Pollard, V. stoneana House, V. chalcosperma Brianerd, V. langoisii var. pedatiloba Brainerd). TM: Section Nosphinium, subsect….