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Marsh Blue Violet 



Viola tiHHlltjta Alton 



Leaves ami stt-nis sm<x>th or nearly MI; leaf blades, except the earliest, 

 broadly ovate to reniform, heart -shajx-d at tin- hast-, the margins strongly 

 cucullate (rolled inward) when the leaves an- young, the apex pointed, 

 margins crenate-serrate; when mature 2 to 4 inches broad. Flowering 

 stalks much longer than the leaves. Flowers violet -him- with a dark -blue 

 throat or center, or sometimes entirely white: lateral jx-tals Ix-arded. the 

 lower or spur petal smooth and usually shorter than the lateral ones. Cleis- 

 togamous flowers on long, slender, ereet stalks, their capsules green; seeds 

 nearly black. 



In moist meadows, springy places in woodlands and along streams, 

 Quebec to (ieorgia. Flowering from late in April until June. 



Ovate-leaved Violet 



Viola fimhrialnla ]. K. Smith 



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Root stock long and stout, sometimes branching. The- earliest leaf 

 blades ovate and blunt; the later ones oblong-ovate, acute, finely pr. 

 especially leneath. the margins crenulate toward the apex, the bases usually 

 somewhat heart -shajx-d or truncate and sharply toothed, incised or auricu- 

 late. Flowering stalks about as long as the leaves when first in bloom or 

 longer than the leaves in later flowers; the corolla violet -purple. < 

 green; seeds brown. Oeistogamous flo\ver> on < net pt dun- 

 Dry- fields and hillsides, throughout the eastern states and south to 

 (k-orgia. Flowering in May and June. 



Arrow-leaved Violet 



Viola sag it la la Ait on 



Leaves erect from a stout n*>t stock, smooth, or sometimes cilia' 

 finely pubescent; their petioles longer than the blades which an- lanceolate 



