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not marked as a favorite taxon Viola langloisii E.L. Greene. Common name: Langlois's Violet. Phenology: (Jan) Feb-Mar. Habitat: Alluvial sand and silt of floodplains and bottomlands in close proximity to the flooding zone, along streams and rivers emptying into the Gulf Coast. Distribution: MS to se. OK, south along the w. FL Panhandle and to se. coastal TX.

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Section: Nosphinium. Subsection: Borealiamericanae.

Origin/Endemic status: Native

Taxonomy Comments: Sometimes synonymized with V. affinis or V. sororia or confused with Viola missouriensis but expressing distinctly different leaf, flower and fruit morphologies. Nearly a Gulf Coastal Plain endemic and quite uniform across its range. Disjunct populations resembling Viola langloisii along the se. lower Atlantic Coastal Plain have been segregated as Viola species 3.

Synonymy ⓘ: = F, K4, NS, POWO, S, Tx; = Viola langloisii Greene var. langloisii — S13; < Viola missouriensis Greene — FNA6; < Viola sororia Willd. — Fl2. Basionym: Viola langloisii Greene 1896

Links to other floras: < Viola missouriensis - FNA6

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACW (taxonomic lump from wetland indicator species)
  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FAC (taxonomic lump from wetland indicator species)
  • Great Plains: FACW (taxonomic lump from wetland indicator species)
  • Great Plains: FAC (taxonomic lump from wetland indicator species)
  • Midwest: FACW (taxonomic lump from wetland indicator species)
  • Midwest: FAC (taxonomic lump from wetland indicator species)
  • Northcentral & Northeast: FAC (taxonomic lump from wetland indicator species)

Heliophily ⓘ: 5

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