Viola pedata - (image 1 of 7)
Taxonomy
Family: Violaceae
Habitat
Dunes, sandy oak savanna, black-soil prairies, and hill prairies. Dry fields and open woods.
Associates
Distribution
ME west to MN, south to northern FL and eastern TX.
Morphology
Herbaceous perennial from an erect rootstock, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves all basal, 3-parted, the lateral segment 3-5 cleft into linear or lanceolate divisions. Flowers 2-4 cm wide; petals beardless, lilac-purple, the upper 2 sometimes darker purple; stamens orange, exserted; does not produce cleistogamous flowers; style clavate, beakless, obliquely concave at the top. Seeds copper-brown.
Notes
Flowers late April to early August
Wetland indicator: Upland
Imagesd 1-5 are of var. lineariloba DC. taken in a sand prairie in southeastern WI. The last two images are of typical V. pedata taken in southern NJ.
References
Gleason, Henry A. and A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. Second Ed.
The New York Botanical Garden. Bronx, NY
Swink, F. and G. Wilhelm. 1994. Plants of the Chicago Region.
Indiana Academy of Science. The Morton Arboretum. Lisle, Illinois.
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