NameThatPlant.net: Viola brittoniana

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

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

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SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Viola brittoniana var. brittoniana FAMILY Violaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 130-02-012a:

Viola brittoniana var. brittoniana FAMILY Violaceae

COMMON NAME:
Northern Coastal Violet, Coast Violet, Britton's Violet

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Viola brittoniana var. brittoniana FAMILY Violaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 130-02-012a:
Viola brittoniana var. brittoniana FAMILY Violaceae

3420

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Moist to seasonally inundated sandy soils of fields, meadows, trail edges, and forest clearings adjacent to rivers and coastal marshes, also peaty river shores, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas

Uncommon in NC Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Simple

Plant homophyllous, all blades lobed or dissected

Plant acaulescent (without aerial stems)
Foliage glabrous or glabrate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Blue-violet
Bilaterally symmetrical
Spurred and lateral petals bearded
5 sepals
5 petals
5 stamens

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule

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