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Viola ×insolita

Viola ×insolita House

Unusual Hybrid Violet

Violaceae (Violet family)

Synonym(s):

USDA Symbol: VIIN3

USDA Native Status: L48 (N)

"Plant pubescent with fine spreading hairs. Rootstock thick, ascending. Blades of vernal leaves 2-4 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, ovate, mostly acute, cut-toothed or cleft, with a prominent middle lobe constituting the main part of the blade, on petioles two to four times as long; later leaves larger and wider in proportion to their length, some of the blades much wider than long and uncut; blue flowers on scapes as long as the petioles; cleistogenes prostrate or ascending, the scapes 6-15 cm. long; sepals lanceolate, two-thirds to one-half as long as the capsules, glabrous except on the prominent ciliolate auricles; capsules 10-15 mm. long, green or mottled with purple; seeds brown." (Reslit:2876).

Hybrid progeny of Viola brittoniana and V. sororia. (Webref: 27).