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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Viola cucullata
FAMILY
Violaceae
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In chasmogamous flower, only V. communis f. priceana could be mistaken for this species, since both produce pale corollas with a conspicuously contrasting dark eyespot around the throat, and have a glabrous spurred petal and prominent auricles; V. cucullata differs from V. communis f. priceana in having flowers strongly overtopping the leaves, linear to linear-lanceolate sepals acuminate from the base, and short lateral petal beards with strongly clavate to doorknob-shaped hairs that do not obscure the throat of the corolla. Read more in Weakley's Flora.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Viola cucullata
FAMILY
Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH A taxonomic treatment of the violets (Violaceae) of the northeastern US and adjacent Canada (Ballard, Kartesz, & Nishino, 2023)
Viola cucullata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Viola cucullata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6 (2015)
Viola cucullata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Violaceae of the Southeastern US (McKinney & Russell, 2002)
Viola cucullata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Viola cucullata
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 130-02-002:
Viola cucullata FAMILY Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Viola cucullata
COMMON NAME:
Blue Marsh Violet, Bog Violet
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_vicu_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_vicu_007_lvd
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Herbarium of Clemson University h_cu53182b
April Rabun County GA
Leaves ovate, 4-10cm long, very nearly as wide as long, typically cordate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Herbarium of Clemson University h_cu45391
May Oconee County SC
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmvcucullata_deepgap1
May Watauga County NC
Petals light blue or light blue-violet, with a dark eye (also with dark veins), per Weakley's Flora.
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_viola_cucullata2e _ma
May? MA
Note height of flowers above leaves and "pansy face" coloring of corolla, per Bruce Sorrie.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Viola cucullata
FAMILY
Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Viola cucullata
FAMILY
Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
A taxonomic treatment of the violets (Violaceae) of the northeastern US and adjacent Canada (Ballard, Kartesz, & Nishino, 2023)
Viola cucullata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Viola cucullata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6
Viola cucullata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Violaceae of the Southeastern US (McKinney & Russell, 2002)
Viola cucullata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Viola cucullata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 130-02-002:
Viola cucullata
FAMILY
Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Viola cucullata
1645
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: bogs, seeps, margins of spring branches, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Carolina Mountains, uncommon in GA Mountains; uncommon in Carolina Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Plant acaulescent (without aerial stems)
Margins shallowly crenate
Leaves glabrous or glabrate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Pale blue-violet
(with a dark eye)
Bilaterally symmetrical
Lateral petals bearded
5 sepals
5 petals
5 stamens
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p030
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p412
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p052
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p348
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p074
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p097
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p104
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