Viola missouriensis, Greene Kim’s notes, unedited. Illustrations: 7 photographs of Viola missouriensis and 2 drawings. Pittonia 4: 141. 1900. Type locality: Leeds, Missouri. Range: Missouri to Oklahoma and northeastern and southern New Mexico, western Texas (Guadalupe Mtns.). Edward Lee Greene, 1843-1915. TM: Section Nosphinium, subsect. Boreali-Americanae [NEW classification, 2010]. IPCN gives only one count that…
Category: Viola section
Viola cucullata, Aiton
Viola cucullata Ait. Kim’s notes, unedited. Illustrations: 10 photographs of Viola cucullata and 1 drawing. TM: Section Nosphinium, subsect. Boreali-Americanae [NEW classification, 2010]. 2N=54, IPCN 86-87, Canne, J.M., 1987. RHS 92A. ‘cucullata’ means hooded William Aiton, 1731-1793. Does not grow at high altitudes. seed pods held vertically for a long time before they dehisce, cf….
Viola sempervirens, Greene
Viola sempervirens, Greene Kim’s notes and references, unedited. Illustrations: 4 photographs of Viola sempervirens and 2 drawings Viola sempervirens Greene Edward Lee Greene, 1843-1915. ‘sempervirens’ refers to the fact that it is evergreen. syn. Viola sarmentosa Dougl. not Bieb. Produces cleistogenes In SW corner of BC, Canada. For plant details see e-Flora BC website….
Viola affinis, Le Conte
Viola affinis LeConte. Kim’s notes, re-arranged not edited. Illustrations: 8 photographs of Viola affinis and 4 drawings (3 of Kim’s pencil drawings and notes Small stemless perennial, 5-12 cm high. Rhizome small ascending to vertical. Leaves narrowly ovate, tip acuminate, base cordate, glabrous, margins denticulate, 3- 4cm long; stipules colourless to scarious, glabrous, free, margins…
Viola vallicola A. Nelson (abbrev. A. Nels.).
Viola vallicola, A Nels. Kim’s unedited notes. Illustrations: 3 photographs of Viola vallicola, no drawings Aven Nelson, 1859-1952. Sect. Chamaemelanium subsect. Nuttallianae [Marcussen, 2011]. 2N=2x=12, IPCN 86-87, Fabijan, D.M., Packer J.G., & Denford, K.E., 1987. Douglas GW, Straby GB and Meidinger D (eds). Aug 1991. The Vascular Plants of British Columbia, Part 3-Dicots.: www.for.gov.bc/hfd/pubs/Docs/Srs03/Srs03-2.pdf: Viola…
Viola tripartita Elliott
Viola tripartita Ell. var. glaberrima (DC.) Harper Kim’s notes and references. Illustrations: 6 photographs of Viola tripartita and 3 drawings (including Kim’s field notes) Stephen Elliot, 1771-1830. Sect. Chamaemelanium subsect. Nudicaules [Marcussen, 2011]. Rare. ?? Threatened, endangered, in some places wiped out already. Extinct (extirpated) in PA.: www.dickinson.edu/prorg/pabs/vascular_plants.htm. Harvey Ballard said there was a recent…
Viola rotundifolia Michx.
Viola rotundifolia Michx. Kim’s notes, re-ordered but unedited. Illustrations: 6 photographs of Viola rotunda and 1 drawing. 2n=2x=12 (a diploid species). Andre Michaux, 1746-1802. (From Kim’s article for NARGS): Viola rotundifolia is the only yellow flowered viola in North America that is stemless at the time of flowering. It is also the earliest viola…
Viola hirsutula, Brainerd
Viola hirsutula Kim’s incomplete notes. Illustrations: 4 photographs of Viola hirsutula, 2 photographs of Viola hirsutula hybrids, 2 drawings. Section Nosphinium, subsect. Boreali-Americanae [NEW classification, 2010]. See also under V. villosa. 2n=54. Flowers RHS 87A. http://plants.usda.gov Plant Images: Distribution by State: AL, DC, DE, FL, GA, IN, KY, MS, NC, NU, NY, OH, PA, SC,…
Viola charlestonensis, M.S. Baker & J.C. Clausen
Viola charlestonensis Kim’s unfinished notes. Illustrations: 2 photographs of Viola charlestonensis and 2 drawings. Clockey, Madroño 8: 58. 1945. I.W. Clockey was a plant collector. Type collected in the Nevada area, 23 May, 1937. Diploid species, 2n=2x=12, where x is the base chromosome number for section Chamaemelanium. SW Utah and Clarke County, Nevada glaucous thick…
Viola biflora L.
Viola biflora Description. Illustrations: 3 photographs of Viola biflora and 2 drawings. Viola biflora is a member of section Chamaemelanium, subsection Biflorae, a group of several geographically separated races distributed on high mountain ranges around the North Pole. Viola biflora migrated from Eurasia across the Bering land bridge to western North America where it is…