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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Viola sororia var. sororia   FAMILY Violaceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Viola sororia   FAMILY Violaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Viola (Ballard [in prep])

Viola sororia

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Viola sororia

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6 (2015)

Viola sororia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Violaceae of the Southeastern US (McKinney & Russell, 2002)

Viola sororia var. sororia

INCLUDING VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 130-02-003 & 005b:

Viola palmata var. sororia   FAMILY Violaceae

INCLUDING (MISAPPLIED) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968)

Viola papilionacea

INCLUDING (MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Viola papilionacea

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Viola priceana

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Viola sororia

 

COMMON NAME:
Dooryard Violet, Confederate Violet, Common Blue Violet


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image of Viola sororia var. sororia, Dooryard Violet, Confederate Violet, Common Blue Violet

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_vila7_001_lvd

        

image of Viola sororia var. sororia, Dooryard Violet, Confederate Violet, Common Blue Violet

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_vipa5_001_lvd

        

image of Viola sororia var. sororia, Dooryard Violet, Confederate Violet, Common Blue Violet

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_viso_001_lvd

        

image of Viola sororia var. sororia, Dooryard Violet, Confederate Violet, Common Blue Violet

Herbarium of Clemson University    h_cu25280

March    Jasper County    SC

image of Viola sororia var. sororia, Dooryard Violet, Confederate Violet, Common Blue Violet

JK Marlow    jkm0403n_35

March    Greenville County    SC

image of Viola sororia var. sororia, Dooryard Violet, Confederate Violet, Common Blue Violet

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmvpapillionacea_and3

March    Anderson County    SC

Blue-violet flowers bearded with tufts of hairs on the lateral petals, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Viola sororia var. sororia, Dooryard Violet, Confederate Violet, Common Blue Violet

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmvsorroria_sta2

March    Oconee County    SC

Oconee Station/Station Cove

About V. palmata var. sororia, "Pubescent or at least the petioles pubescent", per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Viola sororia var. sororia, Dooryard Violet, Confederate Violet, Common Blue Violet

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmvsorroria_sta3

March    Oconee County    SC

Oconee Station/Station Cove

image of Viola sororia var. sororia, Dooryard Violet, Confederate Violet, Common Blue Violet

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_viola_sororia_4

March        

image of Viola sororia var. sororia, Dooryard Violet, Confederate Violet, Common Blue Violet

Keith Bradley    kab_viola_sororia_0652

April    Transylvania County    NC

Leaves more or less ovate or broadly heart-shaped, on long stalks, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Viola sororia var. sororia, Dooryard Violet, Confederate Violet, Common Blue Violet

Keith Bradley    kab_viola_sororia_1126

April    Polk County    NC

Included in this entity is the familiar Confederate Violet, var. priceana, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Viola sororia var. sororia, Dooryard Violet, Confederate Violet, Common Blue Violet

Tim Spira    tpsvsororia2

April        

image of Viola sororia var. sororia, Dooryard Violet, Confederate Violet, Common Blue Violet

Herbarium of Clemson University    h_cu25281b

May    Laurens County    SC

image of Viola sororia var. sororia, Dooryard Violet, Confederate Violet, Common Blue Violet

Herbarium of Clemson University    h_cu30808

May    Charleston County    

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Viola sororia var. sororia   FAMILY Violaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Viola sororia   FAMILY Violaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Viola (Ballard [in prep])
Viola sororia

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Viola sororia

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6
Viola sororia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Violaceae of the Southeastern US (McKinney & Russell, 2002)
Viola sororia var. sororia

INCLUDING VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 130-02-003 & 005b:
Viola palmata var. sororia   FAMILY Violaceae

INCLUDING (MISAPPLIED) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968)
Viola papilionacea

INCLUDING (MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Viola papilionacea

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Viola priceana

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Viola sororia

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

1652

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Loam or clay soils in dry-mesic to wet-mesic forests, higher ground and terraces or borders of bottomlands, and lawns and other anthropogenically modified sites formerly with native vegetation, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common

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LEAVES:
Simple
Plant acaulescent (without aerial stems)
Margins crenate-serrate
Leaf blade glabrous or essentially so, or with scattered pubescence

FLOWER:
Spring
Bluish/Violet/White
Bilaterally symmetrical
Lateral petals bearded
5 sepals
5 petals
5 stamens

FRUIT:
Spring
Capsule

 

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