Viola macloskeyi F.E.Lloyd Description and illustrations of Viola macloskeyi: 6 photographs (1 of immature seeds) and 3 drawings This violet is isolated in the high mountain ranges of California, Oregon, Washington and south western Canada. It is common in the San Bernardino and San Jacinto Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, the north Coast Ranges and the Cascade…
Viola lanceolata
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…
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 xviarum
Viola xviarum No notes. Illustrations: 6 photographs and 2 drawings of Viola xviarum
Viola villosa
Viola villosa Walter Description and illustrations of Viola villosa: 4 photographs and 2 drawings Viola villosa was first collected by Thomas Walter, a plantation owner and keen botanist in the Charleston area of South Carolina. The plants that I have photographed were growing east of Charleston at the edge of a newly developing industrial estate, at…
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 sororia – Photo Gallery
Kim selected 42 photographs of flowers of V. sororia and related hybrids to study the range of taxonomic features.
Viola sororia
[Kim’s notes and description of Viola sororia, unedited. 7 photographs and 1 drawing. Notes on associated Fritillary butterflies. See also the posting of Viola sororia photographs] Viola sororia Willd. TM: Section Nosphinium, subsect. Boreali-Americanae [NEW classification, 2010]. 2N=54, IPCN 86-87, Canne, J.M., 1987. Carl Ludwig von Willdenow, 1765-1812. From draft of article written by Kim…
Viola septentrionalis
Viola septentrionalis Greene Kim’s unedited notes, 3 photographs and 2 drawings of Viola septentrionalis TM: Section Nosphinium, subsect. Boreali-Americanae [NEW classification, 2010]. Edward Lee Green, 1843-1915. ‘septentrionalis’ means ‘north, northern’. A few sites in BC, Canada. For plant details see e-Flora BC website. Use http://plants.usda.gov Plant Images to find map of states where this occurs,…