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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Viola septemloba
FAMILY
Violaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Viola septemloba
FAMILY
Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Viola (Ballard [in prep])
Viola septemloba
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Viola septemloba
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6 (2015)
Viola septemloba
(?) Violaceae of the Southeastern US (McKinney & Russell, 2002)
Viola septemloba ssp. septemloba
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Viola septemloba
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Viola palmata var. palmata
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 130-02-011:
Viola septemloba FAMILY Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Viola septemloba
COMMON NAME:
Southern Coastal Violet, Cleft-leaved Violet
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_vise4_001_lvd
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Herbarium of Clemson University h_cu25359
March Charleston County SC
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Herbarium of Clemson University h_cu25359b
March Charleston County SC
Early leaves ovate, rotund or cordate; mature leaves deeply lobed, per Weakley's Flora.
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Herbarium of Clemson University h_cu25444b
March Walton County FL
Flowering stalks to about 6" tall, topped by a large 1.5" flower, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Herbarium of Clemson University h_cu85013
March Beaufort County SC
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_viola_septemloba_4
March
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Herbarium of Clemson University h_cu44287b
April Berkeley County SC
Blades and petioles mostly glabrous, unlike the similar-looking V. palmata, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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JK Marlow jkm060423_045
April Charleston County SC
Francis Marion National Forest
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JK Marlow jkm090425_093
April Pickens County SC
Nine Times Preserve
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Herbarium of Clemson University h_cu30806
May Berkeley County SC
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmvseptemloba_steed
May Berkeley County SC
Francis Marion National Forest
Petals light to dark blue-violet. Lateral petals bearded, per Violaceae of the Southeastern US (McKinney & Russell, 2002).
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Herbarium of Clemson University h_cu44764
July Charleston County SC
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Viola septemloba
FAMILY
Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Viola septemloba
FAMILY
Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Viola (Ballard [in prep])
Viola septemloba
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Viola septemloba
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6
Viola septemloba
(?)
Violaceae of the Southeastern US (McKinney & Russell, 2002)
Viola septemloba ssp. septemloba
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Viola septemloba
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Viola palmata var. palmata
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 130-02-011:
Viola septemloba
FAMILY
Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Viola septemloba
1660
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, other sandy pinelands and secondary habitats derived from them, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in GA & SC (uncommon in NC)
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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)
Plants glabrous or glabrate
FLOWER:
Spring
Blue-violet
Bilaterally symmetrical
Spurred and lateral petals bearded
5 sepals
5 petals
5 stamens
FRUIT:
Spring
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p070?
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p245
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p344
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p418
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p352
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p103
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