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Your search found 41 taxa in the family Violaceae, Violet family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.
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Common Name:
Green-violet
Look for it in very nutrient-rich and mesic forests, especially over calcareous substrates such as limestone and dolomite, sometimes extending upslope into dry-mesic or even dry forests and woodlands when the soils are very basic
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain) (rare in GA Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Birdsfoot Violet
Look for it in dry rocky or sandy forests, woodlands, glades, and roadbanks
Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain of GA & SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Sandhills Birdsfoot Violet
Look for it in dry to xeric longleaf pine sandhills
Uncommon in Carolinas, rare in GA (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Blue Marsh Violet, Bog Violet
Look for it in bogs, seeps, margins of spring branches
Common in Mountains, uncommon Piedmont & GA Mtns, rare Coastal Plain & GA Pdmt
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Dooryard Violet, Confederate Violet, Common Blue Violet
Look for it in 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
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in moist woods, moist thickets
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
LeConte's Violet, Sand Violet, Thinleaf Violet, Missouri Violet
Look for it in swamp forests, wet bottomlands
Common
Native: west of the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Wood Violet, Early Blue Violet, Palmate-leaved Violet, Southern Three-lobed Violet
Look for it in drier to dry sandy, sandy loam in dry oak and oak-pine woods and dry to dry-mesic savannas and closed forests, on slopes and bluffs.
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Early Blue Violet, Wavyleaf Violet, Wood Violet
Look for it in rich, dry-mesic and dry upland forests, probably associated with mafic rocks
Common in Mountains (uncommon in SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in drier to dry sandy, sandy loam in dry oak and oak-pine woods and dry to dry-mesic savannas and closed forests, on slopes and bluffs, ranging into somewhat moister substrates in forested situations, including drier microsites on stream and rivers terraces and borders of swamp
Uncommon
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Southern Woolly Violet, Carolina Violet
Look for it in pocosin ecotones, other sites with moist soils
Uncommon (rare in GA Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Woodland Violet, Silvery Purple-leaf Violet, Southern Wood Violet
Look for it in bottomlands, on moist slopes, dry forests and clearings
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Ovate-leaf Violet, Downy Violet, Sand Violet
Look for it in somewhat acidic, well-drained sandy and gravelly soils in glades and prairie-like openings, or on slopes of oak forests
Uncommon in NC
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Arrowleaf Violet, Arrowhead Violet
Look for it in dry to moist forests and woodlands
Common (uncommon to rare south and west of SC Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Coastal Violet, Cleft-leaved Violet
Look for it in longleaf pine sandhills, other sandy pinelands and secondary habitats derived from them
Common in GA & SC (uncommon in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Salad Violet
Look for it in sandy to mucky alluvial soils of low terraces, floodplains and swamps along blackwater streams and rivers
Uncommon in Carolinas, rare in GA
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Cedar Glade Violet
Look for it in calcareous barrens and glades, also in disturbed calcareous sites
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Northern Coastal Violet, Coast Violet, Britton's Violet
Look for it in moist to seasonally inundated sandy soils of fields, meadows, trail edges, and forest clearings adjacent to rivers and coastal marshes, also peaty river shores
Uncommon in NC, rare in SC
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Wild White Violet, White Marsh Violet
Look for it on brookbanks, seepages
Common in NC Mountains, rare in GA, uncommon elsewhere in NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Sweet White Violet
Look for it in moist microsites in mesic forests on slopes and along streams, often under conifers (e.g., Tsuga), northern, or at higher elevations southwards
Common in Mountains, uncommon in Piedmont
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in moist to wet forests
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Primrose-leaf Violet
Look for it in bogs, wet savannas, pocosins, sandhill streamhead ecotones, moist organic soils along small streams
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Lanceleaf Violet, Narrow-leaved Violet, White Bog Violet
Look for it in bogs, seepage slopes, pitcher plant seepage bogs, streamheads and their margins, small swamp forests, depression ponds, interdune swales and ponds, other wet habitats
Common in NC Coastal Plain, uncommon in NC Piedmont, rare in SC Coastal Plain & NC Mtns
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Strapleaf Violet, White Bog Violet, Southern Water Violet
Look for it in depression ponds, Carolina bays, other wetlands lacking flowing water
Common in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Roundleaf Yellow Violet, Early Yellow Violet
Look for it in rich coves
Common in Mountains
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Threepart Violet, Three-parted Yellow Violet
Look for it on moist slopes and in bottomlands, especially over mafic or calcareous rocks
Rare (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Threepart Violet, Three-parted Yellow Violet
Look for it in rich mesic to wet-mesic forests on lower slopes and bottomlands, especially over mafic or calcareous rocks
Uncommon in NC, rare in SC
Native to the Carolinas
Look for it in rich dry to dry-mesic forests
Uncommon to rare (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Halberd-leaf Violet, Halberd-leaf Yellow Violet, Spearleaf Violet, Silverleaf Violet
Look for it in acidic coves, dry-mesic oak forests, bluff forests, bases of rock ledges
Common in Mountains, uncommon in Piedmont
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Downy Yellow Violet, Hairy Yellow Forest Violet
Look for it in rich deciduous forests
Common in Mountains, uncommon in Carolina Piedmont, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Smooth Yellow Forest Violet, Smooth Yellow Violet
Look for it in mesic forests and floodplain terraces of brownwater rivers
Common in Mountains of GA & NC, uncommon SC Mountains, rare in NC Piedmont
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Canada Violet, Tall White Violet
Look for it in rich cove forests, other rich mesic situations, such as floodplains
Common in Mountains, rare in Piedmont
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pale Violet, Creamy Violet, Striped Cream Violet
Look for it in mesic forests and woodlands, disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Longspur Violet
Look for it in acidic cove forests, other mesic forests, often under Tsuga canadensis, but also in calcareous forests (as in n. AL)
Common in Mountains, rare in Piedmont
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
American Dog Violet
Look for it in moist alluvial woodlands and forests, seepage slopes, marl ravines, hammocks
Uncommon (rare in GA, rare in NC Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Walter's Violet, Prostrate Blue Violet
Look for it in nutrient-rich woodlands and forests, dolomite bluffs and ledges especially on mafic or calcareous rocks to the north, sandy or rocky and often acidic soils in dry or dry-mesic forests southward
Uncommon (common in GA-SC Coastal Plain, rare in NC Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Appalachian Violet, Henry's Violet
Look for it in moist loam on stream terraces in mesic forests, rich cove forests, and on mafic or ultramafic rocks especially in seepage, serpentine barrens
Rare in NC
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Johnny Jump-up, Pansy
Look for it in lawns, garden borders, railroad rights-of-way. Commonly cultivated
Uncommon
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
European Field Pansy
Look for it on roadsides, in fields, other disturbed habitats
Common (uncommon in Mountains, rare in GA)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Johnny Jump-up, American Field Pansy, Wild Pansy
Look for it in pastures, on roadsides, in lawns, other disturbed habitats, less commonly in dry rocky woodlands and barrens
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
English Violet, Sweet Violet
Look for it in gardens, lawns, disturbed places
Waifs, persistent or weakly spreading from horticultural use
Non-native: Europe
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