Family | VIOLACEAE |
Genus species | Viola lanceolata L. sect. Viola |
Synonyms | Viola attenuata Sweet |
Viola denticulosa Pollard | |
Habitat | bogs, marshes |
Altitude | 0-2000m |
Description | leafy stolons, leaves lanceolate, 3-12cm, tapered to solid petiole, crenulate, flowers with distinct purple venation on lower petal |
Size | 5-30cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | spring |
Ca | |
Type | tuft |
Cultivation | very moist to boggy, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous, sandy soil, semi-shade |
Propagation | seed in winter, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 13-16°C division after flowering and in fall |
Territory |
Northern America
Eastern Canada (New Brunswick , Newfoundland , Nova Scotia , Ontario , Prince Edward I. , Québec ) North-Central U.S.A. (Illinois , Iowa , Minnesota , Missouri , Nebraska , Oklahoma , Wisconsin ) Northeastern U.S.A. (Connecticut , Indiana , Maine , Masachusettes , Michigan , New Hampshire , New Jersey , New York , Ohio , Pennsylvania , Rhode I. , Vermont , West Virginia ) South-Central U.S.A. (Texas ) Southeastern U.S.A. (Alabama , Arkansas , Delaware , Florida , Georgia , Kentucky , Maryland , North Carolina , South Carolina , Tennessee , Virginia , District of Columbia) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | VIOLACEAE
lanceolata vittata (Greene) N.H.Russell, Amer. Midl. Naturalist 54: 484 (1955)
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