About Viola egglestonii Brainerd
Viola egglestonii Brainerd, commonly called the glade violet, is a herbaceous plant species in the violet family. It is native to a small region of eastern North America, where it grows exclusively in limestone cedar glades. These glades are located within the Interior Low Plateau and Ridge and Valley ecoregions of the U.S. states of Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee. This species is a perennial, stemless blue violet. It can be distinguished from related violets by its deeply lobed glabrous leaves and bearded petals. It flowers from early to mid April. This violet is endemic to the rare limestone cedar glade habitat. All of the states where it occurs track its populations, with the exception of Tennessee. It reaches its highest commonness in Tennessee's Nashville Basin, because this region has a relatively high abundance of limestone cedar glades.
