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Perennial

Non-native: Europe

Documented growing wild in - NC -

Rare, persistent or weakly spreading from horticultural use

Look for it in gardens, lawns, disturbed places, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Semi-evergreen
Simple
Plant acaulescent (without aerial stems)
Leaves pubescent, some nearly glabrous

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Stoloniferous

FLOWER:
Winter/Spring
Blue/White/or variegated blue & white
Bilaterally symmetrical
Lateral petals bearded
5 sepals
5 petals
5 stamens

FRUIT:
Winter/Spring
Capsule

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Vola are among the few flowers that actually taste good, according to The Culinary Violet

Check out EDDMapS.org to see where this has been reported.

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Viola odorata FAMILY Violaceae

COMMON NAME:
Sweet Violet, English Violet

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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_viod_001_lvd

Herbarium of Clemson University h_cu32723b

April Wicomico County MD

Leaves basal (and from stolons), 5-10, ascending to erect; petiole 2-17cm, per Flora of North America.