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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Viola palmata var. triloba
FAMILY
Violaceae
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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
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Viola palmata var. palmata
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6 (2015)
Viola palmata var. palmata
INCLUDED WITHIN The Plants of Pennsylvania (Rhoads & Block, 2007)
Viola subsinuata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Viola triloba var. triloba
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
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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
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Viola palmata var. palmata
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6
Viola palmata var. palmata
INCLUDED WITHIN
The Plants of Pennsylvania (Rhoads & Block, 2007)
Viola subsinuata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Viola triloba var. triloba
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 130-02-005c:
Viola palmata var. triloba
FAMILY
Violaceae
4445
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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