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Viola ×mollicula

Viola ×mollicula House

Delicate Hybrid Violet

Violaceae (Violet family)

Synonym(s):

USDA Symbol: VIMO4

USDA Native Status: L48 (N)

"Freely stoloniferous, pubescent on the peduncles and petioles, about 2 dm. tall. Leaf-blades pale beneath, ovate, acute or obtuse, subcordate to cordate, crenate with low incurved teeth, 4-6 cm. long and 3 5-5 cm. wide in mature leaves, sometimes as wide as long, on petioles about three times as long. White flowers on long slender peduncles equaling or longer than the petioles capsules green, 5-8 mm. long; seeds small and dark." (Reslit: 2852). "This shows a marked resemblance to V. primulifolia, and would probably have been so labeled without closer study. It differs from this in its shorter, more ovate and cordate leaf-blades, and in its small dark seeds characteristic of V. pallens. (Reslit: 2852).

Hybrid progeny of Viola macloskeyi and V. ×primulifolia. (Webref: 27).