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April 18, 2012
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Southeastern, New Hampshire
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Using the new botanical guide by Arthur Haines,
Flora
Novae Angliae: A Manual for the Identification of Native and Naturalized
Higher Vascular Plants of New England, you can see the flow of steps used to
identify this species of violet:
- Plants with leafy aerial stems. Flower stems arising from leaf axils.
- Plants perennial from rhizomes (underground stems). Style (thin tube in
the center of flower connecting the ovary) is not globe-shaped at the end/tip.
- Flower petals white, cream, purple or violet.
- Flower petals purple. Sepals eciliate (without hairs on the edge).
- The spur (sticking out of the back of the flower) is 2.8-7mm long.
- Leaf blades are commonly hairless or restricted to the front of the leaf.
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