Viola sororia 'Priceana' "Violet Chamber of Flower Photo Gallery" (Internet Guide)

Section		Boreali-Americanae Gordon
Scientific Name	Type species	Viola sororia Willd. 'Priceana' Published in: Hort. berol. 1: t. 72 (1806)
	Variety	Viola sororia var. affinis (Leconte) L.E. McKinney Viola sororia var. missouriensis (Greene) L.E. McKinney Viola sororia var. novae-angliae (House) L.E. McKinney
	Form
	Synonym	≡Viola cucullata var. sororia (Willd.) Torr. & A.Gray ≡Viola palmata var. sororia (Willd.) Pollard Viola chalcosperma Brainerd Viola floridana Brainerd Viola latiuscula Greene Viola papilionacea Pursh Viola priceana Pollard And many others.
	Origin	sororia : sisterly, of a sister, clumped (*uncertain)
Common names		【Taiwanese】蝶花菫菜, 【English】Common blue violet、Confederate Viole
Stalk Form		The individual leaves and flowering stalks emerge directly from the rootstock.
Habitat		It grows wild for grassland or a forest with the moisture brightly.
Distribution	Japan domestic
	Japan overseas	Central part from the eastern part of North America.
	Others
Flower	Shape	Large size. There have been many changes, and it has been arranged into 10 types in recent years.
	Color	A purple article spreads through every direction on cloth of white background from the center.
	Spur	Short and shameless.
	Season	Long.
	Stigma	Inverted triangle shape.
	Aromatic
	Others
Leaf	Shape	Heart-shaped leaf grows big very much in the summer.
	Color	Both surfaces are deep green.
	Others
Seed	Shape	Medium grain. Teardrop shape (bulging oval).
	Color	Glossy black-brown.
	Others
Characteristics of roots		White mustache root.
Endangered Information
Type Specimen
Chromosome Number		2n=54
Reference Information
Others		Although it is treated as a horticultural variety in Japan, there are some views that it is a variety or forma because it grows in nature due to this trait. It came to Japan in the Meiji era.