Round-leaved Yellow Violet

(Viola rotundifolia)

 

   

 

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

 

Round-leaved Yellow Violet (Viola rotundifolia Michx.)

Identification: Leaves basal and flowers on separate stalks. Flowers yellow. Leaves heart-shaped and small in a basal cluster.

Distribution: Ohio in the east to southeastern Canada in the east, southward to Georgia and Tennessee in the mountains.

Habitat: Round-leaved Yellow Violet is found in wet forest.

Flowering period: April to May.

Similar Species: Round-leaved Yellow Violet is the only yellow violet in eastern North America with basal leaves and flowers on separate stalks.

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