Viola villosaWalter

Carolina violet

WFO wfo-0001144705 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Viola villosa, photographed by Leila Dasher
fig. a Leila Dasher, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-20 / obs. 183825059
Viola villosa, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. b Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165843724
Viola villosa, photographed by Noland Martin
fig. c Noland Martin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115934604
Viola villosa, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. d Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 103958736
Viola villosa, photographed by John Kees
fig. e John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 61617592
Viola villosa, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. f Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 34329824
Viola villosa, photographed by cwarneke
fig. g cwarneke, CC0 1.0 / obs. 23804383
Viola villosa, photographed by Hippytiger
fig. h Hippytiger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 14245671

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Viola villosa is native: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas AlabamaArkansasFloridaGeorgiaLouisianaMississippiNorth CarolinaOklahomaSouth CarolinaTexas
Native distribution of Viola villosa, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Arkansas ARK
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Louisiana LOU
Mississippi MSI
North Carolina NCA
Oklahoma OKL
South Carolina SCA
Texas TEX

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 2 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Viola alabamensis Pollard
  • Viola carolina Greene

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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