WorldFloraDB - Viola blanda

Characteristics

Acaulescent, with slender creeping rhizomes and later in the season with well developed leafy or naked stolons, glabrous to commonly with some short, stiff, white hairs on the upper surface of the basal lobes of the lvs; petioles and peduncles usually red-tinged; lvs broadly cordate-ovate to cordate-orbicular, dark green with a satiny sheen, acute or acutish, the basal sinus narrow (or the lobes overlapping), avg larger than in no. 14 [Viola macloskeyi F. E. Lloyd], the largest ones 2–4+ cm wide at anthesis; fls often fragrant, on peduncles shorter than or surpassing the lvs; pet white, the 3 lower with brown-purple veins near the base, all beardless or nearly so, the 2 upper usually linear-oblong and reflexed-twisted, the 2 lateral pointing forward, so that the fl does not look flat-faced; cleistogamous fls on prostrate peduncles, with purplish, ovoid frs 4–6 mm; seeds dark brown, acute at base; 2n=44. Cool ravines and moist, shady slopes in deep humus, usually under evergreens; s. Me. to N.J., O., and s. Ind., and in the mts. to N.C., Tenn., and n. Ga. Apr., May. (V. incognita)

More

Plants perennial, acaulescent, stoloniferous, 3–20 cm; stolons pale, often rooting and leafy at nodes; rhizome short, slender, fleshy. Leaves basal, 2–9, prostrate to ascending; stipules linear-lanceolate, margins entire, apex acute; petiole 2–11 cm, usually sparsely pubescent; blade unlobed, reniform to ovate, 2–4 × 2–4 cm, base cordate, lobes often overlapping, margins serrate, ciliate or eciliate, apex rounded or acute to acuminate, surfaces sometimes glabrous, usually sparsely pubescent adaxially. Peduncles 3–11 cm, glabrous or pubescent. Flowers: sepals lanceolate to ovate, lanceolate to ovate, margins mostly eciliate, auricles 1–2 mm; petals white on both surfaces, lower 3 purple-veined, lateral 2 usually beardless, lowest 8–10 mm, spur white, gibbous, 1–2 mm; style head beardless; cleistogamous flowers axillary. Capsules ovoid to ellipsoid, 4–6 mm, glabrous. Seeds beige to bronze, 1.5–2 mm. 2n = 44, 48.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	herb
Growth support	-
Foliage retention	evergreen
Sexuality	hermaphrodite
Pollination	-
Spread	-
Mature width (meter)	-
Mature height (meter)	0.03 - 0.2
Root system	rhizome
Rooting depth (meter)	-
Root diameter (meter)	-
Flower color
Blooming months	-
Fruit color	-
Fruiting months	-
Nitrogen fixer	-
Photosynthetic pathway	c3

Environment

It is a temperate plant.

Light	-
Soil humidity	-
Soil texture	-
Soil acidity	-
Soil nutriment	-
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

The leaves and stems mixed with other greens and parboiled, then rinsed and fried.

Uses	-
Edible	-
Therapeutic use	-
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Mode	-
Germination duration (days)	14 - 21
Germination temperacture (C°)	18 - 23
Germination luminosity	dark
Germination treatment	stratification
Minimum temperature (C°)	-
Optimum temperature (C°)	-
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-