| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violaceae | Viola ×williamsii | Horned Pansy | Commonly planted, seeding down locally near plantings. | Of garden origin. | |
| Violaceae | Viola ×wittrockiana | Garden Pansy | Cultivated, very sporadically persistent or remnant after planting. | Native of Europe. | |
| Violaceae | Viola affinis | Leconte’s Violet, Sand Violet | Damp to saturated (less typically periodically inundated), often sandy soils bordering vernal pools, streams and rivers in mesic to wet forests, and on terraces in floodplains and swamp borders. | Maine to se. Minnesota, south to Georgia and Arkansas. |  (c) Oldham, Michael J. - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Violaceae | Viola appalachiensis | Appalachian Violet | Moist loam on stream terraces in mesic forests, rich cove forests, and on mafic or ultramafic rocks especially in seepage, serpentine barrens. | Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia south to sw. North Carolina. |  (c) Wheeler, Brandon - CC0 |
| Violaceae | Viola arcuata | Lawns. | Native of e. Asia. Found in Bronx, New York, n. New Jersey (Ballard, Kartesz, & Nishino 2023), and North Carolina (Anson Co. and Transylvania Co.). Likely to be found more widely. |  (c) Wang, Zihao - CC-BY | |
| Violaceae | Viola arvensis | European Field Pansy | Roadsides, fields, other disturbed habitats. | Native of Europe, widely introduced. |  (c) Weise, Armin - CC-BY |
| Violaceae | Viola baxteri | Baxter's Violet | Sandy or rocky loam of limestone prairies and prairie-like openings, often surrounded by richer mesic or swamp forests. | C. New York to sw. Ont. and se. Michigan, south to sw. Pennsylvania, sw. Ohio, nc. Kentucky, and e. Indiana. |  (c) Oldham, Michael J. - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Violaceae | Viola blanda | Sweet White Violet | Moist microsites in mesic forests on slopes and along streams, often under conifers (e.g., Tsuga), northern, or at higher elevations southwards. | New Hampshire and Québec west to Minnesota and ne. North Dakota, south to Delaware, Maryland, w. North Carolina, n. Georgia, e. Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and e. Iowa. |  (c) Weise, Armin - CC-BY |
| Violaceae | Viola brittoniana | Northern Coastal Violet, Coast Violet | Moist to seasonally inundated sandy soils of fields, meadows, trail edges, and forest clearings adjacent to rivers and coastal marshes, also peaty river shores. | Massachusetts to South Carolina, along the coast. |  (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Violaceae | Viola canadensis | Tall White Violet | Rich cove forests, other rich mesic situations, such as floodplains. | Newfoundland and Labrador (Newfoundland) to Ontario, south to Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas. |  (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Violaceae | Viola chalcosperma | Jacksonville Violet | Moist soils bordering swamps. | Jacksonville, Florida (type locality); may be more widespread in ne. Florida than the type locality suggests. | |
| Violaceae | Viola communis | Hooded Blue Violet, Dooryard Violet, Common Blue Violet, Confederate Violet, Sadie Price's Violet | Widespread in moist loam and clay soils of floodplains, thickets, transitioning between forested slopes and swamp or wetland borders, as well as lawns, suburban woodlots, roadsides and other open sites. | Se. Pennsylvania west to Michigan and Kentucky, south to Virginia and Missouri, and perhaps further south as either a native of an introduction. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Violaceae | Viola cucullata | Blue Marsh Violet, Bog Violet | Bogs, seeps, margins of spring branches. | Newfoundland and Labrador (Newfoundland) west to Minnesota, south to South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Missouri. |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Violaceae | Viola domestica | Yard Violet | Suburban yards. | Massachusetts and New York south to North Carolina and Missouri, the distribution very poorly known because of past inclusion of this taxon in others. | |
| Violaceae | Viola edulis | Atlantic Coast Salad Violet | Sandy to mucky alluvial soils of low terraces, floodplains and swamps along blackwater streams and rivers. | Se. Maryland (Longbottom, Naczi, & Knapp 2016) south to e. Georgia. |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Violaceae | Viola egglestonii | Eggleston's Violet, Nashville Violet | Calcareous barrens and glades, also in disturbed calcareous sites, including pastures, roadsides, and lawns. | Interior Highlands, s. Indiana south to nw. Georgia and n. Alabama (Chester, Wofford, & Kral 1997), nw. Georgia (Jones & Coile 1988). |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Violaceae | Viola emarginata var. 1 ["phasmatifolia" variant] | Insect-leaf Violet | Somewhat acidic, well-drained sandy soils in oak and oak-pine forests, and open sites along forest borders and roadsides adjacent to open woodlands. | Sc. Virginia south to sc. North Carolina, in the Piedmont and foothills. | |
| Violaceae | Viola emarginata var. 2 ["deltate" variant] | Somewhat acidic, well-drained sandy soils in oak and oak-pine forests, and open sites along forest borders and roadsides adjacent to open woodlands. | C. North Carolina; disjunct in sw. North Carolina. | ||
| Violaceae | Viola emarginata var. 3 ["Lower Midwest" variant] | Midwest Triangle-leaved Violet | Somewhat acidic, well-drained sandy soils in oak and oak-pine forests, and open sites along forest borders and roadsides adjacent to open woodlands, lowland prairies. | W. Missouri and e. Kansas south through Arkansas and e. Oklahoma to w. Louisiana and e. Texas. | |
| Violaceae | Viola emarginata var. 4 ["Kentucky" variant] | Kentucky Violet | Dry sandy soils in oak and oak-pine woodlands. | West Virginia and s. Ohio south and west to n. Alabama, nc. Mississippi, and w. Louisiana. |  (c) Voelker, Vanessa - CC-BY-NC |
| Violaceae | Viola emarginata var. 5 ["xiphophylla" variant] | Limited information suggests sandy or rocky soils in montane oak and oak-pine forests, or dry open oak barrens. | W. Virginia and w. North Carolina, as far as known. | ||
| Violaceae | Viola emarginata var. emarginata | Triangle-leaved Violet | Somewhat acidic, well-drained sandy soils in oak and oak-pine forests, and open sites along forest borders and roadsides adjacent to open woodlands. | E. Massachusetts and s. New York (Long Island) south to w. North Carolina, e. North Carolina, and sw. Georgia. |  © George Chamuris |
| Violaceae | Viola eriocarpa | Smooth Yellow Forest Violet | Mesic forests and floodplain terraces of brownwater rivers. | Québec west to Manitoba south to Delaware, Maryland, w. North Carolina, c. Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Violaceae | Viola fimbriatula | Northern Downy Violet | Somewhat acidic, well-drained sandy and gravelly soils in glades and prairie-like openings, or on slopes of oak forests. | Nova Scotia west to Wisconsin, south to w. North Carolina, e. Tennessee, n. Georgia, and ne. Alabama. |  (c) Danielson, Erik |
| Violaceae | Viola floridana var. 1 ["peninsular Florida" variant] | Peninsular Blue Violet | Loamy soils in mesic forests, floodplain borders and hammocks. | C. peninsular Florida. | |
| Violaceae | Viola floridana var. 2 ["rosacea" variant] | Mississippi Blue Violet | Loamy soils in mesic forests, floodplain borders. | S. Mississippi and s. Louisiana. | |
| Violaceae | Viola floridana var. floridana | Florida Blue Violet | Loamy soils in mesic forests, floodplain borders and hammocks. | S. Georgia south to c. peninsular Florida, west to s. Alabama. |  © Ryan Schiller |
| Violaceae | Viola glaberrima | Northern Wedgeleaf Violet | Rich mesic to wet-mesic forests on lower slopes and bottomlands, especially over mafic or calcareous rocks. | Sw. Pennsylvania, s. Ohio south to se. Kentucky, sw. North Carolina, c. North Carolina, and nc. South Carolina. |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Violaceae | Viola hastata | Spearleaf Violet, Silverleaf Violet, Halberd-leaf Violet, Halberd-leaved Yellow Violet | Acidic coves, dry-mesic oak forests, bluff forests, bases of rock ledges. | C. and w. Pennsylvania and ne. Ohio south to c. Georgia, Panhandle Florida, sc. Alabama, and se. Mississippi. |  (c) Cressler, Alan M. |
| Violaceae | Viola hirsutula | Wood Violet, Southern Woodland Violet | Bottomlands, moist slopes, dry forests and clearings. | Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and s. Indiana, south to Panhandle Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. |  (c) Weise, Armin - CC-BY |
| Violaceae | Viola impostor | Impostor Violet | Sandy alluvium along streams and rivers, usually near the coast. | Se. lower Atlantic Coastal Plain, se. Virginia to e. Georgia. | |
| Violaceae | Viola incognita | Common Sweet White Violet, Large-leaved White Violet | Moist to wet forests. | Newfoundland and Labrador (Labrador) to Minnesota and ne. North Dakota, south to Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and in the Appalachians south to w. North Carolina. |  (c) Danielson, Erik |
| Violaceae | Viola inconspicua | Asian Wedgeleaf Violet | Disturbed areas, parking lots, gardens, mulched flowerbeds, increasingly appearing in natural areas as well. | Native of e. Asia. Probably considerably more widespread than currently mapped, spreading rapidly in nursery material. Reported for s. Alabama (Baldwin County) by Keener et al. (2024). |  (c) Y, Toby - CC-BY |
| Violaceae | Viola labradorica | American Dog-violet | Moist alluvial woodlands and forests, seepage slopes, marl ravines, hammocks. | Newfoundland and Labrador (Labrador) west to Alaska, south to e. Virginia, nw. South Carolina (Gaddy et al. 1984), n. Georgia, c. Alabama, and Ohio; disjunct in sw. Georgia and Panhandle Florida. |  (c) Cressler, Alan M. |
| Violaceae | Viola lanceolata | Lanceleaf Violet, Northern Water Violet | Bogs, seepage slopes, pitcher plant seepage bogs, streamheads and their margins, small swamp forests, depression ponds, interdune swales and ponds, other wet habitats. | New Brunswick west to Minnesota, south to Panhandle Florida and e. Texas. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Violaceae | Viola langloisii | Langlois's Violet | Alluvial sand and silt of floodplains and bottomlands in close proximity to the flooding zone, along streams and rivers emptying into the Gulf Coast. | Mississippi to se. Oklahoma, south along the w. Florida Panhandle and to se. coastal Texas. | |
| Violaceae | Viola latiuscula | Broad-leaved Wood Violet | Dry sandy soils of upland forests. | New York, and Vermont, and Ontario. Previous reports from Pennsylvania have been excluded as misidentifications (Ballard, Kartesz, & Nishino 2023). | |
| Violaceae | Viola lovelliana | Lovell's Violet | Dry sandy soils under oak-pine woodlands, forested bluffs. | S. and w. Arkansas to c. Oklahoma, south to se. Louisiana and s.-c. Texas (reports outside this region are misidentifications). |  © Jim Walker |
| Violaceae | Viola minuscula | Wild White Violet | Brookbanks, seepages. | Newfoundland and Labrador (Labrador) west to Northwest Territories, south to Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, South Dakota, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California; Hispaniola. |  (c) Fowler, Jim |
| Violaceae | Viola missouriensis | Missouri Violet | Sandy soils of bottomland forests along streams, rivers and lakeshores. | W. Midwest, Great Plains and Lower Midwest, c. Indiana to Minnesota, s. to w. Mississippi, e. Texas. |  (c) Campos, Aidan |
| Violaceae | Viola monacanora | Monacan Violet | Rocky loam soils at moderate elevations. | Endemic to Blue Ridge mountains and upper Piedmont of Virginia and nw. North Carolina. |  (c) Ayer, Aster |
| Violaceae | Viola nephrophylla | Northern Bog Violet | Strongly calciphilic, seasonally or perennially saturated open sites such as bedrock pavement, rocky shores, fens, marl bogs and wet prairies, occasionally in disturbed sites especially around crushed limestone. | Newfoundland and Labrador (Newfoundland) and Yukon Territory south to Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia (where perhaps only introduced), Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana, Texas, California, and Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, Sonora). |  (c) Sorrells, Ryan - CC-BY |
| Violaceae | Viola odorata | Sweet Violet, English Violet | Gardens, lawns, disturbed places, persistent or weakly spreading from horticultural use. | Native of Europe. |  (c) Pogacnik, Shaun - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Violaceae | Viola palmata var. 1 ["pseudostoneana" variant] | Drier to dry sandy, sandy loam in dry oak and oak-pine woods and dry to dry-mesic savannas and closed forests, on slopes and bluffs. | Sc. Pennsylvania south in the Appalachians to w. North Carolina and e. Tennessee. | ||
| Violaceae | Viola palmata var. 2 ["glabrate palmata" variant] | Alabama Three-lobed Violet | Drier to dry sandy, sandy loam in dry oak and oak-pine woods and dry to dry-mesic savannas and closed forests, on slopes and bluffs. | N. Alabama. | |
| Violaceae | Viola palmata var. 3 ["Red Hills palmata" variant] | Red Hills Violet | Drier to dry sandy, sandy loam in dry oak and oak-pine woods and dry to dry-mesic savannas and closed forests, on slopes and bluffs. | Coastal Plain, w. Georgia sc. Alabama, Louisiana, and s. Arkansas. | |
| Violaceae | Viola palmata var. 4 ["avipes" variant] | Dry woodlands. | Appalachians of Virginia. | ||
| Violaceae | Viola palmata var. palmata | Southern Three-lobed Violet, Wood Violet | Drier to dry sandy, sandy loam in dry oak and oak-pine woods and dry to dry-mesic savannas and closed forests, on slopes and bluffs. | Maine west to Wisconsin, south to Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. Widespread at lower elevations of Piedmont and Coastal Plain in southeastern U.S, and Lower Midwest. |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Violaceae | Viola palmata var. triloba | Northern Three-lobed Violet | Drier to dry sandy, sandy loam in dry oak and oak-pine woods and dry to dry-mesic savannas and closed forests, on slopes and bluffs, ranging into somewhat moister substrates in forested situations, including drier microsites on stream and rivers terraces and borders of swamps. | Ne. US and s. Ontario southward into the s. Appalachian highlands, mostly absent from Lower Piedmont and se. Atlantic Coastal Plain, the s. limit in the Gulf States and Lower Midwest unclear. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Violaceae | Viola patrinii | Disturbed urban areas. | Native of ne. Asia. | ||
| Violaceae | Viola pectinata | Pectinate Violet | Moist sandy or peaty soils, sphagnous ground and seeps of coastal (sometimes brackish) marshes and riverbanks, and fields, meadows, trail edges, and forest clearings in formerly natural habitats. | Atlantic coast, Massachusetts south to North Carolina. |  (c) Baur, John - CC-BY |
| Violaceae | Viola pedata ssp. cuneatiloba | Biternate Bird's-foot Violet | Dry rocky or sandy forests, woodlands, glades, and roadbanks. | Sw. New Jersey and se. Pennsylvania to w. Maryland, south to wc. Virginia and se. West Virginia. |  (c) Copen, Iris - C, permission granted to NCBG |
| Violaceae | Viola pedata ssp. pedata | Common Bird's-foot Violet | Dry rocky or sandy forests, woodlands, glades, and roadbanks. | New Hampshire, New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota south to s. Georgia, s. Alabama, s. Mississippi, s. Louisiana, and e. Texas. |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Violaceae | Viola pedata var. flabellata | Sandhill Bird’s-foot Violet | Dry to xeric longleaf pine sandhills. | Sc. North Carolina south to c. South Carolina (and perhaps Georgia). There are a few odd collections in the West Gulf Coastal Plain that resemble var. flabellata. |  (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Violaceae | Viola pedatifida | Crowfoot Violet | Organic loam of dry-mesic to mesic prairies. | Ontario west to Alberta, south to n. Ohio, Indiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona; material disjunct in w. Virginia attributed as V. pedatifida is a new species, Viola tenuisecta. |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Violaceae | Viola pratincola | Meadow Violet | Wet prairies bordering streams and rivers, less often streambanks and swampy woodlands, often invading anthropogenic sites such as low-lying lawns and railroad rights-of-way. | Wisconsin west to North Dakota, south to c. Illinois, Arkansas, e. Texas, and New Mexico. | |
| Violaceae | Viola primulifolia | Primrose-leaf Violet | Bogs, wet savannas, pocosins, sandhill streamhead ecotones, moist organic soils along small streams. | Newfoundland and Labrador (Newfoundland) to Ontario, south to s. Florida, and west to Texas and se. Oklahoma. |  (c) Fowler, Jim |
| Violaceae | Viola pubescens | Hairy Yellow Forest Violet | Rich deciduous forests. | Maine and s. Québec west to South Dakota, south to Delaware, North Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, Nebraska, and Texas. |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Violaceae | Viola rafinesquei | Wild Pansy, Field Pansy, Johnny-jump-up | Pastures, roadsides, lawns, other disturbed habitats, less commonly in dry rocky woodlands and barrens. | Massachusetts and New York west to South Dakota and Colorado, south to Panhandle Florida, Texas, and Arizona. |  (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Violaceae | Viola renifolia | Kidneyleaf Violet | Dry organic-rich often sandy or rocky soil, or ledges in dry or dry-mesic forests, somewhat of a calciphile and often on limestone. | Newfoundland and Labrador west to Alaska, south to ne. Pennsylvania, Michigan, ne. Iowa, w. South Dakota, Colorado, Idaho, and Washington. |  (c) crgillette - CC-BY |
| Violaceae | Viola retusa | Great Plains Violet | Gravel riverbanks along rivers and streams, sometimes under open woods bordering riverbanks, in the Great Plains. | N. North Dakota to n. Wyoming, south to e. Kansas, c. Texas and nc. Colorado. | |
| Violaceae | Viola rostrata | Long-spurred Violet | Acidic cove forests, other mesic forests, often under Tsuga canadensis, but also in calcareous forests (as in n. AL). | New Hampshire and Québec west to Wisconsin, south to Georgia and Alabama. |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Violaceae | Viola rotundifolia | Roundleaf Yellow Violet, Early Yellow Violet | Rich to acidic coves and other moist forests. | Maine to s. Ontario, south to w. North Carolina, n. Georgia, and e. Tennessee. |  (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Violaceae | Viola sagittata | Arrowhead Violet | Dry to moist forests and woodlands. | Massachusetts west to Minnesota, south to Georgia and e. Texas. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Violaceae | Viola selkirkii | Selkirk's Violet, Great Spurred Violet | Cool forests and in rock crevices. | Circumboreal: Newfoundland and Labrador to Alaska, south to Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, n. Minnesota and n. Washington, disjunct in South Dakota and Colorado; Greenland; Eurasia. |  (c) Danielson, Erik |
| Violaceae | Viola septemloba | Southern Coastal Violet | Longleaf pine sandhills, other sandy pinelands and secondary habitats derived from them. | Se. Virginia south to s. Florida, west to Louisiana, mainly on the Coastal Plain. |  (c) Cressler, Alan M. |
| Violaceae | Viola septentrionalis var. septentrionalis | Northern Wood Violet | Moist woods, moist thickets. | Boreal and montane, interruptedly transcontinental, Newfoundland and Labrador to e.-c. Ontario, s. to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, along Appalachians to w. North Carolina and e. Tennessee; apparently disjunct in the nw. Rocky Mtns (reports in the s. Great Lakes and Midwest are misidentifications) (P. McMillan, pers. comm.), e. Tennessee (Chester, Wofford, & Kral 1997), Michigan, Wisconsin, Montana, and Washington. |  (c) Roots, Paul - CC-BY |
| Violaceae | Viola sororia var. 1 ["glabrous" variant] | Moist forests. | Se. Pennsylvania, w. Virginia, w. North Carolina; poorly known and probably more widespread. | ||
| Violaceae | Viola sororia var. 2 ["hirsutuloides" variant] | Loam or clay soils in dry-mesic to wet-mesic forests, higher ground and terraces or borders of bottomlands. | E. New Jersey and Pennsylvania, c. New York, e. Ohio, w. North Carolina and n. Georgia. | ||
| Violaceae | Viola sororia var. sororia | Common Blue Violet | Loam or clay soils in dry-mesic to wet-mesic forests, higher ground and terraces or borders of bottomlands, and lawns and other anthropogenically modified sites formerly with native vegetation. | Newfoundland and Labrador (Newfoundland) west to Manitoba, south to s. Florida and Texas. |  (c) Fowler, Jim |
| Violaceae | Viola species 2 ["pedatiloba"] | Alluvial sand and silt of floodplains and bottomlands in close proximity to the flooding zone, along streams and rivers emptying into the Gulf Coast. | W. side of the Mississippi Embayment, w. Louisiana, near Crowley and e.-c. Arkansas, should be sought in the intervening region. | ||
| Violaceae | Viola species 5 ["Gulf Coastal Plain edulis"] | Moist loamy soils of floodplains, swamps and hammocks. | Confirmed in Florida, s. Georgia and s. Alabama; the range of this recently detected new species is currently being reinterpreted and is probably broader than presented here. | ||
| Violaceae | Viola stoneana | Stone's Violet | Moist loam of rich mesic forest slopes and bases of slopes. | Local along and near the "fall line" between the upper Atlantic Coastal Plain and the lower Piedmont, se. New York to c. Virginia; disjunct in ec. North Carolina. |  (c) Farr, Izabella - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Violaceae | Viola striata | Cream Violet, Pale Violet | Mesic forests and woodlands, disturbed areas. | Massachusetts west to Wisconsin, south to Georgia, Arkansas, and e. Oklahoma. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Violaceae | Viola subsinuata var. 1 ["Chapel Hill" variant] | Chapel Hill Violet | Sandy or rocky loamy soils in rich dry and dry-mesic forests, probably associated with mafic rocks. | Endemic to nc. North Carolina (so far as is known). | |
| Violaceae | Viola subsinuata var. subsinuata | Wavy-leaved Violet | Rich, dry-mesic and dry upland forests, probably associated with mafic rocks. | Vermont and c. Pennsylvania south to North Carolina, ne. Alabama, ne. Mississippi and e. Kentucky; slightly disjunct in e. Ohio (if these are not de novo hybrids involving V. baxteri) and in northern Piedmont from Connecticut south to New Jersey. |  (c) Powell, Eric M - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Violaceae | Viola tenuipes | Southern Wedge-leaf Violet | Rich dry to dry-mesic forests. | Sw. North Carolina and c. Tennessee south to c. South Carolina, w. Georgia, Florida Panhandle, and c. and nw. Alabama. |  (c) Diamond, Alvin - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Violaceae | Viola tenuisecta | Shale Barren Violet | Dry to seasonally moist less acidic sandy soils and rock outcrops in shaded microsites in and around shale barrens. | Endemic to shale barrens slopes of Alleghany and Bath Counties in w. Virginia; should be sought in adjacent West Virginia. |  (c) Zumwalde, Bethany |
| Violaceae | Viola tricolor | Pansy, Johnny-jump-up | Lawns, garden borders, railroad rights-of-way, commonly cultivated. | Native of Europe. |  (c) Danielson, Erik |
| Violaceae | Viola tripartita | Three-parted Yellow Violet | Moist slopes and bottomlands, especially over mafic or calcareous rocks. | Sw. North Carolina and se. Tennessee south to w. South Carolina, nc. Georgia, and ne. Alabama; disjunct in s. Ohio, w. West Virginia, and ne. Kentucky. |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Violaceae | Viola viarum | Limestone Riverbank Violet, Plains Violet | Moist to wet limestone gravel and bedrock riverbanks and streamsides, bluffs, bottomland prairies, and along roadsides and other disturbed areas formerly in natural habitat. | Missouri River and Ozarks in central and lower Midwest, w. Illinois to se. South Dakota, s. to Missouri, nw. Louisiana and e. Oklahoma (specimens collected outside this region are not typical, do not inhabit the specific habitats of this species, and are suspected of being hybrids). |  (c) Sorrells, Ryan - CC-BY |
| Violaceae | Viola villosa | Southern Woolly Violet | Pocosin ecotones, other sites with moist soils, rocky or sandy oak-pine woodlands or wooded slopes. | North Carolina south to n. peninsular Florida, west to Texas and Oklahoma. Reported for Virginia by Kartesz (1999), on the basis of Massey (1961); report requiring additional documentation. |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Violaceae | Viola vittata | Southern Water Violet, Strap-leaved Violet | Depression ponds, Carolina bays, other wetlands lacking flowing water. | Delaware and s. New Jersey south to Florida, west to e. Texas; nw. Indiana and ne. Illinois. |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Violaceae | Viola walteri | Walter's Violet, Prostrate Blue Violet | Nutrient-rich woodlands and forests, dolomite bluffs and ledges especially on mafic or calcareous rocks to the north, on coquina limestone (marl) in the SC Coastal Plain, and in sandy or rocky and often more acidic soils in dry or dry-mesic forests southward. | Sc. Pennsylvania, ne. West Virginia, and w. Virginia west to sc. Ohio and Arkansas, south to n. peninsular Florida and e. Texas. |  (c) Cressler, Alan M. |