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Plant Characteristics

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Leaf Complexity: Simple
Fruit Type: Capsule
Size Notes: Up to about 1 foot tall.
Leaf: "Young plants pubescent, older plants much less pubescent. Vernal leaf-blades oblong-ovate to broadly ovate, obtuse or acutish, subcordate or truncate, crenate, or irregularly toothed toward the base, densely ciliolate, 2.5-4 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, on slender petioles two to three times as long; aestival leaves deltoid to ovate, with the apex more acute, 3-9 cm. long, 2.5-6 cm. wide." (Reslit: 2852). "Leaves narrowly deltoid, the upper half minutely and distantly serrate, the basal lobes round and coarsely toothed, forming a broad sinus..." (Bibref: 1797).
Flower: "Blue flowers overtopping the leaves, their calyx-lobes short and blunt, ciliolate, with short appressed ciliolate auricles; cleistog- amous flowers sagittate, with longer and more spreading ciliolate auricles, on erect or ascenditng peduncles;" (Reslit: 2852).
Fruit: "... capsules green or mottled with purple, puberulent or glabrous, 6-11 mm. long, in some plants entirely sterile; seeds buff to brown." (Reslit: 2852).

Bloom Information

Bloom Color: White , Blue , Violet
Bloom Time: Apr , May , Jun

Distribution

USA: CT , KY , LA , MD , NJ , NY , PA , VA

Web Reference

Webref 38 - Flora of North America (2019) Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
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.

Additional resources

USDA: Find Viola ×hollickii in USDA Plants
FNA: Find Viola ×hollickii in the Flora of North America (if available)
Google: Search Google for Viola ×hollickii