Texas Wildbuds

Viola sororia

(Hooded Blue Violet)

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Viola sororia, Caddo Lake State Park, Harrison Co. 0918

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Viola sororia, Caddo Lake State Park, Harrison Co. 0507

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Viola sororia, Caddo Lake State Park, Harrison Co. 0780

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Viola sororia, Caddo Lake State Park, Harrison Co. 0517

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Viola sororia, Caddo Lake State Park, Harrison Co. 0920

Scientific Name Viola sororia USDA PLANTS Symbol VISO
Common Name Hooded Blue Violet, Common Blue Violet Violet ITIS Taxonomic Serial No. 22169
Family Violaceae (Violet) SEINet
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Description Habitat: Dry to soils in woods, thickets, stream banks, prairies, pastures, disturbed areas.
Plant: Stemless perennial 2 to 20 inches tall, usually much shorter; leaves and flowers arising from rootstock, no stolons (runners).
Leaves: One to eight basal, unlobed leaves, ascending to erect; blades broadly ovate, elliptic to reniform base cordate, 2-1/2 to 4 inches wide; margins are crenate to serrate; tips are acute to obtuse or rounded; surfaces usually with pubescent hairs; petioles 1 to 10 inches long.
Inflorescence: A few to several densely hairy flowering stalks (peduncles) 1 to 5 inches long arising from rootstock, each with a single flower; flowers have 5 light to dark blue, purple, reddish purple, or (rarely) white petals with pale yellow bases; petals are spreading (2 upper, 2 lateral, and 1 lower), lateral and often the lowest petals with dense white hairs near the throat of the flower; lower and lateral petals with purple veins; 5 sepals are green and lanceolate to ovate.
Bloom Period: March and April.
References: "Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas" by Correll and Johnston, SEINet, Minnesota Wildflowers and Flora of North America. 		BONAP Distribution Map

Map Color Key		 Texas Status:
Native
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