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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.