Sweet White Violet

(Viola blanda)

 

   

 

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Line Drawing: Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada, Second Edition.

 

Sweet White Violet (Viola blanda Willd.)

Identification: Leaves basal and flowers located on separate stalks. Flowers white, fragrant, and with upper petals twisted at the apices. Leaves ovate to heart-shaped, basal indentation between leaf blade and leaf stalk narrow and deep.

Distribution: Southeastern Canada, southward to Iowa in the west and Georgia and Alabama and in the east.

Habitat: Sweet White Violet is found in woods.

Flowering period: April to May.

Similar Species: Sweet White Violet could be mistaken by for Northern White Violet or Kidney-leaved Violet. However the twisted apices of the upper flower petals are distinctive.

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