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Viola ×conjugens
Viola ×conjugens Greene (pro sp.)
Maryland Violet, Northern Bog Hybrid Violet
Violaceae (Violet family)
Synonym(s): Viola aberrans, Viola ×fernaldii, Viola ×greenei, Viola ×lavandulacea, Viola ×parca
USDA Symbol: VICO11
USDA Native Status: L48 (N), CAN (N)
"Plants tufted, often densely so, the long petioles and peduncles erect, the latter commonly 8 or 10 inches high and well exceeding the leaves ; herbage slightly succulent, deep-green, appearing glabrous, but the upper face of the leaves sparsely short-pubescent along the veins and veinlets: blade of leaf comparatively small, the lowest less than an inch long and broadly cordate-ovate, plane, the later ones l½ inches long and from cordate to cordate- subsagittate and somewhat cucullate, all with broad sinus and the earlier somewhat decurrent on the petiole: corollas large, blue, more than an inch in diameter, the lamina of the petals broadly and obtusely obovate, the claw and the base of the blade white and densely white-hairy, the hairs flattened: sepals lanceolate, acutish, wholly glabrous: apetalous flowers not seen, but doubtless aerial." (Reslit: 2849). Leaf margins crenate.
Hybrid progeny of Viola sagittata and V. sororia.
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Plant Characteristics
Duration: PerennialLeaf Complexity: Simple
Fruit Type: Capsule
Size Notes: Up to about 20 inches tall.
Bloom Information
Bloom Color: White , BlueBloom Time: Mar , Apr , May
Bloom Notes: Flowers blue, claws and laminae white proximally. (Reslit: 2849). "... flowers pale lilac to lavender blue, the petals whitened and much narrowed basally, all or all but the two upper ones sharply dark-lineate… " (Reslit: 2879).
Distribution
USA: CT , GA , IN , KY , MA , MD , ME , MN , MO , NH , NJ , NY , OH , PA , VT , WICanada: NL , PE , QC
Native Distribution: The Northeast and Midwest in the US and Eastern Canada.
Native Habitat: "It inhabits grassy uplands along the borders of forests looking northward," (Reslit: 2849). "… in damp meadows… " (Reslit: 2879).
Web Reference
Webref 6 - Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database] (2018) USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.Webref 27 - USDA Plants Database (2018) USDA, NRCS.
Research Literature
Reslit 2849 - A Fascicle of Violets (1899) Edward L. GreeneThis information was provided by the Florida WIldflower Foundation.
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Additional resources
USDA: Find Viola ×conjugens in USDA PlantsFNA: Find Viola ×conjugens in the Flora of North America (if available)
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Metadata
Record Modified: 2020-12-07Research By: Joseph A. Marcus