NameThatPlant.net: Viola palmata var. triloba

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

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The northern variety is retained here as relatively morphologically and ecologically distinct; var. palmata and var. triloba have not been found growing in intimate local contact, and their ranges are nearly allopatric when putative hybrids of var. palmata with Viola sororia are removed from consideration. Read more in Weakley's Flora.

Read more about Viola palmata at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 130-02-005c:

Viola palmata var. triloba FAMILY Violaceae

COMMON NAME:
Northern Three-lobed Violet

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

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 130-02-005c:
Viola palmata var. triloba FAMILY Violaceae

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Forb
Perennial

Habitat: 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 swamps, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina

Uncommon

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LEAVES:
Simple

Plant heterophyllous, producing undivided leaf blades in very early spring and late autumn and leaf blades with lobes, coarse teeth or incisions during chasmogamous flowering and cleistogamous fruiting (often retaining one or more undivided blades)

Plant acaulescent (without aerial stems)
Margins crenate
Petioles and/or blades glabrous or pubescent, puberulent or minutely puberulent

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Violet
Bilaterally symmetrical
Lateral petals bearded
5 sepals
5 petals
5 included stamens

FRUIT:
Capsule

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