Viola septemloba Le Conte
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- Family
- Violaceae
- Botanical Name
- Viola septemloba Le Conte
- Common Name
- Southern Coastal Violet
- Synonym(s)
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- in Taxa Not Treated: Unverified Taxa
- Comments
- Virginia herbarium specimens of this species, V. brittoniana, and V. edulis need critical study and re-evaluation due to possible confusion among these Coastal Plain violets. Particularly problematic is the relationship of V. septemloba and V. brittoniana, names which have both been applied by different people to very similar plants of the same region in se. Virginia. See comment under Viola brittoniana for a more detailed discussion of this issue. In their recent monograph on northeastern violets, Ballard et al. (2023, Jour. Torrey Bot. Soc. 150(1): 3-266), map this species in Virginia, but with no counties identified. Thus, until a systematic study and re-evaluation of our lobed-leaved Coastal Plain violets is made, we are not confident in mapping this species based on herbarium material labelled as such.
- Habitat
- Virginia habitat uncertain (see comments above). Further south, in the main part of its range, V. septemloba usually inhabits "sandy pinelands," which are a component of the landscape in only a few of our southeastern counties.
- Native Status
- Native
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