Flora of North America species comparison

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Viola villosa

Carolina violet, southern woolly violet
Habit Plants perennial, acaulescent, not stoloniferous, 5–15 cm; rhizome thick, fleshy.
Leaves

basal, 4–9, prostrate to ascending;

stipules linear-lanceolate, margins entire, apex acute;

petiole 3–10 cm, densely pubescent;

blade unlobed, reniform or ovate to elliptic, 1–8 × 1–5.5 cm, base cordate, margins serrate, ciliate, apex rounded to acute, mucronulate, surfaces densely pubescent.
Peduncles

4–10 cm, puberulent.
Flowers

sepals lanceolate to ovate, margins ciliate, auricles 1–2 mm;

petals light to dark blue-violet on both surfaces, lower 3 white basally and dark violet-veined, lateral 2 bearded, spur sometimes bearded, lowest 10–20 mm, spur usually white, gibbous, 2–3 mm;

style head beardless; cleistogamous flowers on ascending to erect peduncles.
Capsules

ellipsoid, 6–10 mm, glabrous.
Seeds

beige, mottled to bronze, or dark brown, 1.5–2 mm.
2n

= 54.

Viola villosa
Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Sandy, pine-oak and pine-oak-hickory woods and disturbed ground
Elevation 10–300 m (0–1000 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; AR; FL; GA; LA; MS; NC; OK; SC; TX
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Discussion

Much of the foliage of Viola villosa remains green throughout the winter (V. B. Baird 1942).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 6, p. 163.
Parent taxa Violaceae > Viola
Sibling taxa
V. adunca, V. affinis, V. arvensis, V. bakeri, V. beckwithii, V. bicolor, V. biflora, V. blanda, V. brittoniana, V. canadensis, V. canina, V. charlestonensis, V. clauseniana, V. cucullata, V. cuneata, V. douglasii, V. egglestonii, V. epipsila, V. flettii, V. frank-smithii, V. glabella, V. guadalupensis, V. hallii, V. hastata, V. hirsutula, V. howellii, V. japonica, V. labradorica, V. lanceolata, V. langsdorffii, V. lithion, V. lobata, V. macloskeyi, V. missouriensis, V. nephrophylla, V. novae-angliae, V. nuttallii, V. ocellata, V. odorata, V. orbiculata, V. palmata, V. palustris, V. pedata, V. pedatifida, V. pedunculata, V. pinetorum, V. praemorsa, V. primulifolia, V. prionantha, V. pubescens, V. purpurea, V. quercetorum, V. renifolia, V. riviniana, V. rostrata, V. rotundifolia, V. sagittata, V. selkirkii, V. sempervirens, V. septemloba, V. sheltonii, V. sororia, V. striata, V. subsinuata, V. tomentosa, V. tricolor, V. trinervata, V. tripartita, V. umbraticola, V. utahensis, V. vallicola, V. walteri
Synonyms V. alabamensis
Name authority Walter: Fl. Carol., 219. (1788)
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