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Common name: early blue violet
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Common names: Early blue violet, Wood violet  
 
==Taxonomic notes==
 
==Taxonomic notes==
 
Synonyms: ''Viola palmata'' var. ''palmata''; ''Viola palmata'' var. ''triloba'' (Schweinitz) Gingins ex A.P. de Candolle; ''Viola triloba'' Schweinitz var. ''triloba''; ''Viola chalcosperma'' Brainerd; ''Viola ×palmata'' Linnaeus (pro sp.); ''Viola triloba'' Schweinitz
 
Synonyms: ''Viola palmata'' var. ''palmata''; ''Viola palmata'' var. ''triloba'' (Schweinitz) Gingins ex A.P. de Candolle; ''Viola triloba'' Schweinitz var. ''triloba''; ''Viola chalcosperma'' Brainerd; ''Viola ×palmata'' Linnaeus (pro sp.); ''Viola triloba'' Schweinitz
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Substrate types include loamy soil, loamy sand, sandy loam, peaty sand, alluvial soil, sandy-peaty soil, sandy-clayey soil, limestone and loamy humus. <ref name="FSU Herbarium"/> Associated species include ''Carex crebriflora, Viola floridana, Aristida, Eleocharis, V. villosa, V. lanceolata, Chaptalia, Lycopodium, Sisyrinchium, Calopogon'', and ''Hypericum.'' <ref name="FSU Herbarium"/>
 
Substrate types include loamy soil, loamy sand, sandy loam, peaty sand, alluvial soil, sandy-peaty soil, sandy-clayey soil, limestone and loamy humus. <ref name="FSU Herbarium"/> Associated species include ''Carex crebriflora, Viola floridana, Aristida, Eleocharis, V. villosa, V. lanceolata, Chaptalia, Lycopodium, Sisyrinchium, Calopogon'', and ''Hypericum.'' <ref name="FSU Herbarium"/>
 
 
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It is a summer forb. <ref name="K04"/>
 
It is a summer forb. <ref name="K04"/>
 
It has been recorded flowering February, March, April, December and fruiting February, March, April, August and September. <ref name="FSU Herbarium"/>
 
It has been recorded flowering February, March, April, December and fruiting February, March, April, August and September. <ref name="FSU Herbarium"/>
 
 
===Seed dispersal===
 
===Seed dispersal===
 
''V. palmata'' is dispersed myrmecochorously or explosively. <ref name="K04"/> According to Kay Kirkman, a plant ecologist, this species disperses by explosion mechanisms or by ants. <ref name="KK"> Kay Kirkman, unpublished data, 2015. </ref>
 
''V. palmata'' is dispersed myrmecochorously or explosively. <ref name="K04"/> According to Kay Kirkman, a plant ecologist, this species disperses by explosion mechanisms or by ants. <ref name="KK"> Kay Kirkman, unpublished data, 2015. </ref>
 
 
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==Conservation and management==
 
==Conservation and management==
 
 
==Cultivation and restoration==
 
==Cultivation and restoration==
 
==Photo Gallery==
 
==Photo Gallery==
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File:Viola palmata 2012 Wade Tract.JPG| <center> ''Viola palmata'' <p> Photo by Kevin Robertson </p><p> Thomas County, GA
 
File:Viola palmata 2012 Wade Tract.JPG| <center> ''Viola palmata'' <p> Photo by Kevin Robertson </p><p> Thomas County, GA
 
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==References and notes==
 
==References and notes==

Revision as of 09:10, 29 September 2016

Viola palmata
Viola palmata Gil.jpg
Photo was taken by Gil Nelson
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Order: Violales
Family: Violaceae
Genus: Viola
Species: V. palmata
Binomial name
Viola palmata
L. (pro sp.)
Viol palm dist.jpg
Natural range of Viola palmata from USDA NRCS Plants Database.

Common names: Early blue violet, Wood violet

Taxonomic notes

Synonyms: Viola palmata var. palmata; Viola palmata var. triloba (Schweinitz) Gingins ex A.P. de Candolle; Viola triloba Schweinitz var. triloba; Viola chalcosperma Brainerd; Viola ×palmata Linnaeus (pro sp.); Viola triloba Schweinitz

Description

"Herbaceous, rhizomatous or stoloniferous perennials, or winter annuals. Leaves crenate or crenate-serrate, dissected, lobed or unlobed; petiolate; stipules conspicuous. Flowers zygomorphic, peduncles directly from the rhizome (acaulescent) or peduncles axillary (caulescent). Chasmogamous flowers with lateral petals often bearded, lower petal spurred; anthers usually seated in the throat, orange appendages conspicuous, lower stamens spurred; spurs fitting in to the spur of the corolla; styles usually clavate, variously shaped at the apex. Dates for Viola, except V. pedata, are for Chasmogamous flowering only, cleistogamous flowering and fruiting commence shortly after chasmogamous flowering and continues until frost. Hybrids are so numerous in this genus that space is not taken to list them." [1]

"Plant acaulescent; rhizomes elongate, stocky, usually more than 4 mm in diam., horizontal, often freely branched. Leaves widely ovate, 5-10 cm long, or occasionally larger, crenate, unlobed, lobed or dissected, cordate, glabrous or pubescent; petioles to 2 dm long; stipules linear to linear-lanceolate, 0.5-2 cm long, fimbriate, rarely entire. Peduncles of chasmogamous flowers nearly as long as the leaves, or slightly longer. Chasmogamous flowers 1.5-4 cm broad, not flat, petals deep reddish violet, lateral petals bearded with clavate trichomes, spurred petal usually glabrous, or occasionally with some trichomes; sepals 6-10 mm long, acute to obtuse, glabrous to ciliate or only the auricles ciliate, auricles 0.5-1 mm long; stamen appendages brilliant orange, deep in the throat of the flower; style clavate. Cleistogamous flowers on divergent peduncles 3-12 cm long or the peduncles erect and short; sepals 4-6 mm long, acute, auricles ca. 1 mm long. Capsules 6-12 mm long. Seeds brown, usually mottled, 1.5-2.3 mm long." [1]

Distribution

Ecology

Habitat

In the Coastal Plain in Florida and Georgia, V. palmata has been found in natural longleaf stands; longleaf pine-wiregrass savannas; loamy soil along mesic hardwood slopes; seepages in ravines; river banks; sandy loam under beech-magnolia forests; hardwood hammocks; oak-palmetto woods; alluvial soil of floodplain forests; between road and slash pine/wiregrass flatwoods; recently burned longleaf pine; longleaf pine-palmetto flats; loamy sand of grassy savanna; second growth loblolly pinewoods; sandy soil of turkey oak-longleaf pine flats; calcareous bluffs; upland mixed woodlands; beech-magnolia forests; and loamy humus of shallow depression of shaded limestone rock in hardwood maritime hammock.[2] [3] It has been found to be extremely vulnerable to disturbance [3] however has been found growing along roadsides, sands of disturbed hillside bogs, lakesides, calcareous banks between earth road and drainage canal, ectone between oak woodland and open powerline corridor, heavily cattle grazed palmetto flatwoods, and a powerline transect through a longleaf pine-wiregrass savanna. [2]

Substrate types include loamy soil, loamy sand, sandy loam, peaty sand, alluvial soil, sandy-peaty soil, sandy-clayey soil, limestone and loamy humus. [2] Associated species include Carex crebriflora, Viola floridana, Aristida, Eleocharis, V. villosa, V. lanceolata, Chaptalia, Lycopodium, Sisyrinchium, Calopogon, and Hypericum. [2]

Phenology

It is a summer forb. [3] It has been recorded flowering February, March, April, December and fruiting February, March, April, August and September. [2]

Seed dispersal

V. palmata is dispersed myrmecochorously or explosively. [3] According to Kay Kirkman, a plant ecologist, this species disperses by explosion mechanisms or by ants. [4]

Fire ecology

It has been observed flowering February and March after a fire. [2]

Conservation and management

Cultivation and restoration

Photo Gallery

References and notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Radford, Albert E., Harry E. Ahles, and C. Ritchie Bell. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. 1964, 1968. The University of North Carolina Press. 665. Print.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Florida State University Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium database. URL: http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu. Last accessed: July 2015. Collectors: Loran C. Anderson, K. Craddock Burks, Robert K. Godfrey, S. W. Leonard, Wilson Baker, James R. Burkhalter, Robert Kral, L. B. Trott, J. P. Gillespie, D. B. Ward, J. Beckner, Patricia Elliot, Cecil R Slaughter, S. R. Harrison, C. Jackson, Nir L. Gil, Angus Gholson, Steve L. Orzell, Edwin L. Bridges, A. G. Shuey, Sidney McDaniel, S. C. Hood, Richard Carter, Mark A Garland, Richard S. Mitchell, Karen MacClendon, B. & M. Boothe, M. R. Darst, Rodie White, R. A. Norris, R. Komarek. States and Counties: Florida: Calhoun, Clay, Flagler, Franklin, Gadsden, Hamilton, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Manatee, Marion, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Seminole, St. Johns, Taylor, Wakulla, Washington. Georgia: Thomas. Compiled by Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Kirkman, L. K., K. L. Coffey, et al. (2004). "Ground cover recovery patterns and life-history traits: implications for restoration obstacles and opportunities in a species-rich savanna." Journal of Ecology 92: 409-421.
  4. Kay Kirkman, unpublished data, 2015.