Viola pedata is an ornamental plant

Ornamental plant

Ornamental plants are plants that are grown for decorative purposes in gardens and landscape design projects, as house plants, for cut flowers and specimen display...

 in the Violaceae

Violaceae

Violaceae are a family of flowering plants consisting of about 800 species in 21 genera. It takes its name from the genus Viola, the violets and pansies.Older classifications such as the Cronquist system placed Violaceae in an order named after it, the Violales...

 family. Monophyletic in stature, this violet, also known as the "mountain pansy" is endemic to eastern North America

North America

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, where it favors well drained, acidic soils in full to partial sun environments. It is supposedly difficult to transplant and grow in gardens, potentially because of an intolerance to rich, organic garden soils as well as excess moisture.

Varieties

Two primary color forms exist, Viola pedata var. concolor, which is a solid pink-lilac-lavendar color, and var. bicolor, in which the superior petals are a deep red-purple and the lateral and interior petals are similar to the concolor variety.

External links

• Native Plant Identification Network
• PlantFiles on Dave's Garden
• Kemper Center for Home Gardening, Missouri Botanical Garden
• Connecticut Botanical Society
• Missouri Plants
• Illinois Wildflowers
• Minnesota Wildflowers
• Ontario Wildflowers
• Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point
• Plant Fact Sheet, North Carolina Cooperative Extension
• Chesapeake Bay Watershed Natives
• Plant of the Week, Celebrating Wildflowers, US Forest Service
• Bioimages
• Viola Pedata Faces (variation in flower color)