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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Viola brittoniana
FAMILY
Violaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Viola brittoniana var. brittoniana
FAMILY
Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH A taxonomic treatment of the violets (Violaceae) of the northeastern US and adjacent Canada (Ballard, Kartesz, & Nishino, 2023)
Viola brittoniana
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Viola brittoniana
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6 (2015)
Viola brittoniana
SYNONYMOUS WITH Violaceae of the Southeastern US (McKinney & Russell, 2002)
Viola pedatifida ssp. brittoniana
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Viola brittoniana var. brittoniana
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Viola palmata var. palmata
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 130-02-012a:
Viola brittoniana var. brittoniana FAMILY Violaceae
COMMON NAME:
Northern Coastal Violet, Coast Violet, Britton's Violet
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_vipe9_001_lvd
[var. pectinata] has somewhat triangular leaves and large sharp basal teeth, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_viola_brittoniana1
June Richmond County NC
Leaves typically cleft into 7-11 linear segments, middle one often wider, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Viola brittoniana
FAMILY
Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Viola brittoniana var. brittoniana
FAMILY
Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
A taxonomic treatment of the violets (Violaceae) of the northeastern US and adjacent Canada (Ballard, Kartesz, & Nishino, 2023)
Viola brittoniana
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Viola brittoniana
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6
Viola brittoniana
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Violaceae of the Southeastern US (McKinney & Russell, 2002)
Viola pedatifida ssp. brittoniana
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Viola brittoniana var. brittoniana
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Viola palmata var. palmata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 130-02-012a:
Viola brittoniana var. brittoniana
FAMILY
Violaceae
3420
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Moist to seasonally inundated sandy soils of fields, meadows, trail edges, and forest clearings adjacent to rivers and coastal marshes, also peaty river shores, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas
Uncommon in NC Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Plant homophyllous, all blades lobed or dissected
Plant acaulescent (without aerial stems)
Foliage glabrous or glabrate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Blue-violet
Bilaterally symmetrical
Spurred and lateral petals bearded
5 sepals
5 petals
5 stamens
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule
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