Viola sagittata Aiton
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Violaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Acaulescent, glabrous or hairy; principal lvs relatively narrow, mostly ovate or narrower, generally at least 1.5 times as long as wide, subtruncate to shallowly cordate at base, sometimes all merely crenate-serrate, sometimes some of them with notably larger and more spreading teeth at the base or with small basal lobes; fls 2–2.5 cm wide, violet-purple, the 3 lower pet bearded at base; style, as in the following 5 spp., dilated upwards in a vertical plane, capitate, with a conic beak on the lower side, the stigma within the tip of the beak; cleistogamous fls on erect or ascending peduncles; fr ovoid; seeds brown; 2n=54. Dry to moist, open woods, clearings, and meadows, less often along streams, often in drier, sunnier habitats than no. 5 [Viola sororia Willd.]; Me. and N.S. to Minn., s. to Fla. and La. Apr.–June. (V. fimbriatula; V. emarginata, the name applied to apparent hybrids with other stemless blue spp.)
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Common Names
arrowhead-violet