Flora
of East-Central Indiana
| Common Violet |
| Scientific Name | Viola sororia Willd. |
| Family Name | Violaceae (Violet Family) |
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Characteristics |
| Habitat: | slopes, open and low woods, thickets, stream banks |
| Plant Height: | 7.5-20 cm, stalks from thick underground caudex |
| Flower Color: | blue/violet, occasionally white or bicolor |
| Flower: | complete; perfect; irregular; 5 sepals, mostly glabrous or very sparsely pubescent; 5 petals, with dark venation near base; lateral petals bearded, lower petal spurred; 5 stamens, connate around ovary, bottom two stamens with flattened curved nectaries |
| Inflorescence: | single flowers on hirsute peduncles from base of plant; curved at apex; flowers and leaves on separate stems; flowers do not stand much above leaves |
| Fruit: | capsule |
| Leaves: | simple; broad, heart-shaped leaves arising from base of plant; petioles long, hirsute |
| Bloom Time: | March-early June |
| Origins: | native |
| Other: | resembles other plants in genus, but differs in typically having densely pubescent leaves and peduncles; see also V. cucullata |
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| general habit | hairs of V. sororia | general form | inside of flower and sepals |
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