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Viola ×populifolia

Viola ×populifolia Greene (pro sp.)

Peck's Hybrid Violet, Poplar-leaf Hybrid Violet

Violaceae (Violet family)

Synonym(s): Viola variabilis, Viola ×peckiana

USDA Symbol: VIPO4

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

"An acaulesceut blue-flowered ,woodland violet akin to V. cuspidata, but smaller, the petioles of the early leaves densely villous-hirsute, the blade from broad­cordate in the very earliest and smallest, to deltoid or deltoid-reniform in those accompanying the petaliferous flowers, notably broader, than long, both surfaces, but more conspicuously the lower, hirsute-pubescent, especially along the veins: corollas large, rather light blue, all the petals broad and obtuse, the odd one like the others but a little longer; sepals of the petaliferous flowers oblong, obtuse, hispidulous below, especially the auricles: apetalous flowers of summer and autumn very short-peduncled and horizontal or partly buried, but the peduncles slender; sepals small, glabrous ; pods triquetrous-ovoid, finely dotted, 4 or 5 lines long: late foliage nearly glabrous, but rather fleshy." (Reslit: 2866).

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