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Viola novae-angliae

Viola novae-angliae House

New England Blue Violet

Violaceae (Violet Family)

Synonym(s): Viola septentrionalis var. grisea, Viola sororia var. novae-angliae

USDA Symbol: VINO

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

"Acaulescent, from slender, ascencding rootstocks: earliest leaves ovate or triangular-ovate, cordate, crenate, rounded or obtuse at the apex, 1-2 cm. long, on petio!es 2-4 cm. long; later leaf-blades thin in texture, triangular-lanceolate, 4-6 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. broad at the base, tapering to an acute apex, the base subtruncate to cordate, margin crenate-dentate at the base, obscurely and distantly crenate toward the apex; dark green and nearly glabrous above, paler and more or less pubescent beneath, especially on the veins; petioles 7-15 cm. long, pubescent with white floccose hairs or glabrate in age: flowering scapes 6-10 cm. long, not surpassing the leaves, bibracteolate below the middle, bractlets ovate with subulate tips 1 mm. long: sepals oblong-lanceolate, 7-8 mm. long, glabrous, obtuse, 3-nerved, the basal auricle less than 1 mm. long, rounded or truncate: petals narrowly oblong, 12-15 mm. long, deep purple-blue, spreading, the lateral and lower ones densely villous with white hairs, the lower one veined with dark purple: cleistogamous flowers short-sagittate and blunt, 3- 4 mm. long on short horizontal peduncles, 15-25 mm. long, their capsules subglobose, about 6 mm. long, or less." Reslit:2848.