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Viola ×hollickii
Viola ×hollickii House
Hollick's Hybrid Violet
Violaceae (Violet family)
Synonym(s): Viola ×dissensa
USDA Symbol: VIHO2
USDA Native Status: L48 (N)
Hybrid progeny of Viola affinis and V. sagittata. (Webref: 27).
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Plant Characteristics
Duration: PerennialHabit: Herb
Leaf Complexity: Simple
Fruit Type: Capsule
Size Notes: Up to about 1 foot tall.
Leaf: "Young plants pubescent, older plants much less pubescent. Vernal leaf-blades oblong-ovate to broadly ovate, obtuse or acutish, subcordate or truncate, crenate, or irregularly toothed toward the base, densely ciliolate, 2.5-4 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, on slender petioles two to three times as long; aestival leaves deltoid to ovate, with the apex more acute, 3-9 cm. long, 2.5-6 cm. wide." (Reslit: 2852). "Leaves narrowly deltoid, the upper half minutely and distantly serrate, the basal lobes round and coarsely toothed, forming a broad sinus..." (Bibref: 1797).
Flower: "Blue flowers overtopping the leaves, their calyx-lobes short and blunt, ciliolate, with short appressed ciliolate auricles; cleistog- amous flowers sagittate, with longer and more spreading ciliolate auricles, on erect or ascenditng peduncles;" (Reslit: 2852).
Fruit: "... capsules green or mottled with purple, puberulent or glabrous, 6-11 mm. long, in some plants entirely sterile; seeds buff to brown." (Reslit: 2852).
Bloom Information
Bloom Color: White , Blue , VioletBloom Time: Apr , May , Jun
Distribution
USA: CT , KY , LA , MD , NJ , NY , PA , VAWeb Reference
Webref 38 - Flora of North America (2019) Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.Webref 6 - Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database] (2018) USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
Webref 27 - USDA Plants Database (2018) USDA, NRCS.
Additional resources
USDA: Find Viola ×hollickii in USDA PlantsFNA: Find Viola ×hollickii in the Flora of North America (if available)
Google: Search Google for Viola ×hollickii
Metadata
Record Modified: 2023-01-04Research By: Joseph A. Marcus