Viola villosa
Viola striata
Carolina violet, southern woolly violet
cream or cream-white or pale or striped or striped cream violet, creamy violet, striped cream violet, striped white violet, violette strièe
1–4, ascending to erect (often declining during anthesis), glabrous or pubescent, on caudex from fleshy rhizome.
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.
basal and cauline;
basal: 2–6;
stipules lanceolate to narrowly deltate, margins laciniate, apex acute;
petiole 3–6 cm, glabrous or puberulent;
blade ovate to reniform, 2–7 × 1–2.5 cm, base cordate, margins crenate to serrate, ciliate or eciliate, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces glabrous or pubescent;
cauline similar to basal except: stipules lanceolate, margins laciniate;
petiole 3–7 cm;
distal blades ovate to deltate, 1–6 × 1–4 cm, base cordate, apex acuminate to acute.
4–10 cm, puberulent.
5–12 cm, glabrous or pubescent.
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.
sepals lanceolate, margins ciliate or eciliate, auricles 2–3 mm;
petals white or cream on both surfaces, without yellow patch basally, lowest and usually lateral 2 purple-veined, lateral 2 and sometimes all densely bearded, lowest 10–18 mm, spur white, gibbous to elongated, 3–6 mm;
style head bearded; cleistogamous flowers axillary.
ellipsoid, 6–10 mm, glabrous.
ellipsoid, 6–7 mm, glabrous.
beige, mottled to bronze, or dark brown, 1.5–2 mm.
beige to bronze, 1.5–3 mm.
= 54.
= 20.
Viola villosa
Viola striata
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.)
Dead, long-persistent stems of Viola striata are often present the following season. In flower, the plants are often mistaken for V. canadensis because the petals are whitish (H. E. Ballard 1992).
Viola striata reportedly hybridizes with V. labradorica (= V. ×eclipes H. E. Ballard), V. rostrata (= V. ×brauniae Grover ex Cooperrider), V. walteri var. appalachiensis (= V. ×wujekii H. E. Ballard), and V. walteri var. walteri (= V. ×cooperrideri H. E. Ballard).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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