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|accepted_name=Viola rotundifolia
|accepted_authority=Michaux
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|place=2: 150. 1803
|year=1803
}}
|common_names=Early yellow or roundleaf yellow violet;violette à feuilles rondes
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Violaceae;Viola;Viola rotundifolia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Violaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Viola]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Viola rotundifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 111, 114
|treatment_page=page 155
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, acaulescent, not stoloniferous, 1–20 cm; rhizome thick, fleshy. <b>Leaves</b> basal, 2–5, prostrate to ascending, often overlapping basally; stipules linear-lanceolate, margins entire, apex acute; petiole 2–8 cm, pubescent; blade unlobed, orbiculate, reniform, or ovate, 2–12 × 1.5–9 cm, base cordate, margins crenate to serrate, sometimes glandular, ciliate or eciliate, apex rounded to acute, surfaces usually pubescent throughout or concentrated proximally on both surfaces. <b>Peduncles</b> 1.5–7 cm, usually pubescent. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals lanceolate to ovate, margins ciliate or eciliate, auricles 0.5–1 mm; petals deep lemon-yellow on both surfaces, lower 3 brownish purple-veined, lateral 2 bearded, lowest 8–11 mm, spur yellow, gibbous, 1–2 mm; style head beardless; cleistogamous flowers on prostrate or partially subterranean rhizomes or on racemelike, nonrooting, and usually leafless branches growing from rhizome apex. <b>Capsules</b> ellipsoid, 5–10 mm, glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> beige, 1–2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–May.
|habitat=Rich montane forests and other mesic woodlands
|elevation=200–2000 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Conn.;Del.;Ga.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;N.H.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p>N. H. Russell (1955b) stated that <i>Viola rotundifolia</i> is a primitive member of <i>Viola</i> and probably one of the ancestral species of stemmed yellow violets of North America. Russell (1965) stated that morphologically, <i>V. rotundifolia</i> is one of the most invariable violets and suggested that its nearest relative is <i>V. orbiculata</i>.</p>
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name=Viola rotundifolia
|author=
|authority=Michaux
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Violaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–May.
|habitat=Rich montane forests and other mesic woodlands
|elevation=200–2000 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Conn.;Del.;Ga.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;N.H.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication year=1803
|special status=Endemic;Selected by author to be illustrated
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|genus=Viola
|species=Viola rotundifolia
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