Viola brittoniana Pollard
Description:
A perennial native to the eastern U.S., known as Britton’s Coast Violet or Northern Coastal Violet, it thrives in temperate alluvial woods, mesic forests, wet fields, and salt meadows. It features basal, 5–9-lobed leaves (1–7 × 2–8 cm) with ciliate margins and glabrous surfaces, sometimes bearing strigose hairs on veins. From April to June, it produces light to soft reddish-violet flowers with white bases, dark violet veins, and a 2–3mm gibbous spur. Growing 5–30cm tall.
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