Viola blanda
English name(s):
sweet white violet
Family: Violaceae
Description:
Charming spring blooming perennial with 5-petaled white flowers of which the upper two twist-curl backwards and the lowest is purple-veined. The stalks of its flowers and heart-shaped leaves often show a reddish-tinge.
Habitat:
occurs in woodlands
Notes:
Violets are host plants for fritillary butterfly caterpillars.
Additional notes:
photograph courtesy of Ami Horowitz
field trip archive: Thompson Ledges 2010
Plant identification
The Ohio State University Herbarium:
Cuyahoga County, 13 May 1916, collector: Clayton M. Hoff voucher specimen
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Newcomb's: Key Group no. 123, p. 28
Historical description:
researching
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Vol. 2: 556.
Beneath my feet
the ground-pine curled
its pretty wreath,
Running over
the club-moss burrs;
Around me stood the oaks and firs;
Pine-cones and acorns
lay on the ground;
Over me soared the eternal sky,
Full of light and of deity;
Beauty through my senses stole,--
I yielded myself
to the perfect whole.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Violet, little violet,
Brave and true and sweet thou art.
Anonymous
virtual herbarium sheet 000002
created by Lisa K. SchlaG, 4.ii.2014
