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Viola ×insolita
Viola ×insolita House
Unusual Hybrid Violet
Violaceae (Violet family)
Synonym(s):
USDA Symbol: VIIN3
USDA Native Status: L48 (N)
"Plant pubescent with fine spreading hairs. Rootstock thick, ascending. Blades of vernal leaves 2-4 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, ovate, mostly acute, cut-toothed or cleft, with a prominent middle lobe constituting the main part of the blade, on petioles two to four times as long; later leaves larger and wider in proportion to their length, some of the blades much wider than long and uncut; blue flowers on scapes as long as the petioles; cleistogenes prostrate or ascending, the scapes 6-15 cm. long; sepals lanceolate, two-thirds to one-half as long as the capsules, glabrous except on the prominent ciliolate auricles; capsules 10-15 mm. long, green or mottled with purple; seeds brown." (Reslit:2876).
Hybrid progeny of Viola brittoniana and V. sororia. (Webref: 27).
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Plant Characteristics
Duration: PerennialHabit: Herb
Leaf Complexity: Simple
Fruit Type: Capsule
Size Notes: Up to about 6 inches tall.
Leaf: "Blades of vernal leaves 2-4 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, ovate, mostly acute, cut-toothed or cleft, with a prominent middle lobe constituting the main part of the blade, on petioles two to four times as long; later leaves larger and wider in proportion to their length, some of the blades much wider than long and uncut..." (Reslit:2876).
Flower: "...blue flowers on scapes as long as the petioles; cleistogenes prostrate or ascending, the scapes 6-15 cm. long; sepals lanceolate, two-thirds to one-half as long as the capsules, glabrous except on the prominent ciliolate auricles..." (Reslit:2876).
Fruit: "...capsules 10-15 mm. long, green or mottled with purple; seeds brown." (Reslit:2876).
Bloom Information
Bloom Color: BlueBloom Time: Apr , May , Jun
Distribution
USA: CT , NYNative Distribution: Hawaii (Molokai) endemic. (Bibref: 1798).
Native Habitat: "… along the margins pf Pepeopae Bog, Molokai…" . (Bibref: 1798).
Web Reference
Webref 6 - Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database] (2018) USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.Webref 23 - Southwest Environmental Information Network (2009) SEINet - Arizona Chapter
Webref 27 - USDA Plants Database (2018) USDA, NRCS.
Additional resources
USDA: Find Viola ×insolita in USDA PlantsFNA: Find Viola ×insolita in the Flora of North America (if available)
Google: Search Google for Viola ×insolita
Metadata
Record Modified: 2023-01-02Research By: Joseph A. Marcus