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Viola ×melissifolia

Viola ×melissifolia Greene

Prince Edward Island Hybrid Violet

Violaceae (Violet family)

Synonym(s): Viola ×montivaga

USDA Symbol: VIME2

USDA Native Status: L48 (N), CAN (N)

"Rootstock stoutish, branching, knotted, but white, the roots very fine-fibrous and white: loosely clustered leaves and flowers 5 to 10 inches high ; herbage rather pale, very thin and delicate, but peduncles and petioles, though soft and weak, not slender, very sparsely and obscurely hirtellous hairy; leaf-blades small for a plant so tall, the largest not 2 inches long, many not more than 1 inch, round-cordate to cordate-ovate, the youngest cucullate, all very regularly though rather coarsely crenate all around, even into the basal sinus and to the insertion on the petiole, both faces, but especially the upper, finely appressed pubescent, though sparsely so, the whole margin ciliolate: flowers large, nearly an inch in diameter, skyblue; 2 lower sepals lanceolate, the others oblong-lanceolate, all obtusish, ciliolate; petals with broad rounded limb, the keel shorter, laterals with a tuft of villous hairs, all with deep-purple veins." (Reslit: 2871).

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