OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Malpighiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (2/8/20):
Viola affinis   FAMILY Violaceae   Go to FSUS key


INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Viola affinis   FAMILY Violaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Viola (Ballard [in prep])

Viola affinis

INCLUDED WITHIN Tennessee Flora Committee (2015)

Viola missouriensis

INCLUDED WITHIN Violaceae of the Southeastern US (McKinney & Russell, 2002)

Viola sororia var. missouriensis

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 130-02-004:

Viola affinis   FAMILY Violaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Viola affinis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Viola affinis

 

COMMON NAME:
LeConte's Violet, Sand Violet, Thinleaf Violet, Missouri Violet


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image of Viola affinis, LeConte's Violet, Sand Violet, Thinleaf Violet, Missouri Violet

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_viaf2_001_lvd

        

image of Viola affinis, LeConte's Violet, Sand Violet, Thinleaf Violet, Missouri Violet

Herbarium of Clemson University    h_cu45564

April    Calhoun County    SC

Earliest leaves reniform, widely deltate, to ovate; midseason leaves deltate, per Violaceae of the Southeastern US (McKinney & Russell, 2002).

image of Viola affinis, LeConte's Violet, Sand Violet, Thinleaf Violet, Missouri Violet

Herbarium of Clemson University    h_cu81583

April    Mecklenburg County    NC

Most or all blades longer than broad, glabrous or glabrate, per Weakley's Flora (2012).

image of Viola affinis, LeConte's Violet, Sand Violet, Thinleaf Violet, Missouri Violet

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmvaffinis_2

Month Unknown        

Varieties sororia & missouriensis are not yet satisfactorally understood, per Weakley's Flora (2012).

image of Viola affinis, LeConte's Violet, Sand Violet, Thinleaf Violet, Missouri Violet

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmviola_affinis

Month Unknown        

Similar to V sororia var sororia but leaves triangular & flowers pale violet, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (2/8/20):
Viola affinis   FAMILY Violaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Viola affinis   FAMILY Violaceae

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

INCLUDED WITHIN Tennessee Flora Committee (2015)
Viola missouriensis

INCLUDED WITHIN Violaceae of the Southeastern US (McKinney & Russell, 2002)
Viola sororia var. missouriensis

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 130-02-004:
Viola affinis   FAMILY Violaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Viola affinis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Viola affinis

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2358

Forb
Annual/Perennial

Habitat: Damp to saturated (less typically periodically inundated), often sandy soils bordering vernal pools, streams and rivers in mesic to wet forests, and on terraces in floodplains and swamp borders, per Weakley's Flora

Native: west of the Carolinas & Georgia

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LEAVES:
Simple
Plant acaulescent (without aerial stems)
Leaf blade glabrous, or with hairs confined to upper surface of basal lobes

FLOWER:
Spring
Blue-violet (with conspicuous white centers)
Bilaterally symmetrical
Spurred and lateral petals bearded
5 sepals
5 petals
5 stamens

FRUIT:
Spring
Capsule

 

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