Viola affinis Le Conte
Detail
- Family
- Violaceae
- Botanical Name
- Viola affinis Le Conte
- Common Name
- LeConte's Violet, Sand Violet
- Synonym(s)
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Viola affinis Le Conte
- Comments
- Treatments of this taxon have varied widely and confusingly in the past. McKinney (1992) considered this species to be a variety of V. sororia restricted to the far north and western U.S., and considered our plants to be referable to V. sororia var. missouriensis. As interpreted here, the name is applied to plants of moist soils and wetlands, generally glabrescent and having leaves longer than wide, as well as often hirtellous capsules. This follows the long held traditional view found in most current manuals, as well as the recent monograph of Ballard et al. (2023; Jour. Torrey Bot. Soc. 150(1): 3-266).
- Habitat
- Floodplain forests, alluvial swamps, seepage swamps, and stream banks; also, apparently in low, moist upland forests, cove forests and mesic high-elevation forests. Frequent in some areas, but not documented in others, at least yet.
- Native Status
- Native
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