OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Malpighiales

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Viola rotundifolia   FAMILY Violaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Viola (Ballard [in prep])

Viola rotundifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Viola rotundifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6 (2015)

Viola rotundifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Violaceae of the Southeastern US (McKinney & Russell, 2002)

Viola rotundifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Viola rotundifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 130-02-017:

Viola rotundifolia   FAMILY Violaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Viola rotundifolia

 

COMMON NAME:
Roundleaf Yellow Violet, Early Yellow Violet


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image of Viola rotundifolia, Roundleaf Yellow Violet, Early Yellow Violet

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_viro2_001_lvd

        

image of Viola rotundifolia, Roundleaf Yellow Violet, Early Yellow Violet

Keith Bradley    kab_v_rotundifolia_1877

March    Pickens County    SC

Table Rock State Park

This starts to bloom just as its leaves are beginning to unfold, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Viola rotundifolia, Roundleaf Yellow Violet, Early Yellow Violet

Steve Marlow    snm100327_r111_09

March    Oconee County    SC

Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District

Petals yellow, some with purple veins. Lateral petals bearded, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Viola rotundifolia, Roundleaf Yellow Violet, Early Yellow Violet

Herbarium of Clemson University    h_cu52476

April    Oconee County    SC

Chattooga River Trail

image of Viola rotundifolia, Roundleaf Yellow Violet, Early Yellow Violet

JK Marlow    jkm0404h_07

April    Polk County    NC

Pearson's Falls

image of Viola rotundifolia, Roundleaf Yellow Violet, Early Yellow Violet

JK Marlow    jkm0404l_02

April    Rutherford County    NC

Chimney Rock Park

image of Viola rotundifolia, Roundleaf Yellow Violet, Early Yellow Violet

JK Marlow    jkm100402_051

April    Oconee County    SC

Jocassee Gorges

image of Viola rotundifolia, Roundleaf Yellow Violet, Early Yellow Violet

JK Marlow    jkm100402_093

April    Oconee County    SC

Jocassee Gorges

image of Viola rotundifolia, Roundleaf Yellow Violet, Early Yellow Violet

JK Marlow    jkm190413_7311

April    Rabun County    GA

image of Viola rotundifolia, Roundleaf Yellow Violet, Early Yellow Violet

Herbarium of Clemson University    h_cu25902

May    Oconee County    SC

Leaf blades rotund, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Viola rotundifolia, Roundleaf Yellow Violet, Early Yellow Violet

Herbarium of Clemson University    h_cu51310

May    Greenville County    SC

Table Rock Reservoir watershed

image of Viola rotundifolia, Roundleaf Yellow Violet, Early Yellow Violet

JK Marlow    jkm100730_264

July    Jackson County    NC

Balsam Mountain Preserve

image of Viola rotundifolia, Roundleaf Yellow Violet, Early Yellow Violet

JK Marlow    jkm120830_221

August    Henderson County    NC

Holmes Educational Forest

Leaves expand into summer, becoming broadly ovate and lying almost flat, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Viola rotundifolia   FAMILY Violaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Viola rotundifolia   FAMILY Violaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Viola (Ballard [in prep])
Viola rotundifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Viola rotundifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6
Viola rotundifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Violaceae of the Southeastern US (McKinney & Russell, 2002)
Viola rotundifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Viola rotundifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 130-02-017:
Viola rotundifolia   FAMILY Violaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Viola rotundifolia

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

1658

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Rich coves, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Mountains

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LEAVES:
Simple
Plant acaulescent (without aerial stems)
Margins crenate-serrate
Leaves pubescent

FLOWER:
Spring
Yellow
Bilaterally symmetrical
Lateral petals bearded
5 sepals
5 petals
5 stamens

FRUIT:
Spring
Capsule

 

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