| Author | Pollard | |
| Distribution | This species has been known for many decades as V. papilionacea var. priceana. In addition, many specimens originally determined as "V. papilionacea" and "V. sororia" apparently also belong here, fide Harvey Ballard and students. There are only 2 collections under the name V. communis in SERNEC; both from Durham County. Website editors will populate the map when annotated specimen data becomes available. Likely to occur in the Piedmont and Mountains, and perhaps the northeastern Coastal Plain.
PA to MI south to NC and MO. | |
| Abundance | Weakley (2020) calls it "uncommon" in the Mountains and the Piedmont. | |
| Habitat | According to Weakley, disturbed areas, suburban woodlands, floodplains. | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting March-June. | |
| Identification | Very similar to , and habitats overlap, but note the shape of the lowest sepals: oblong to ovate and blunt in sororia, but lanceolate and acuminate in communis. | | Taxonomic Comments | A synonym is V. papilionacea var. priceana.
General note on Viola: In 2009-10 B.A. Sorrie (website map editor) went through the whole collection at NCU, annotating all specimens against those verified by experts in the genus. The range maps in RAB (1968) have been changed accordingly. More recently, H. Ballard and students are in the process of revising all Southeastern Viola, and they will recognize additional species; this work has now been published (see above). We will follow updated editions of Weakley in recognizing them. | | | Other Common Name(s) | Confederate Violet, Dooryard Violet. | | | State Rank | [S3?] | | | Global Rank | GNA | | | State Status | | | | US Status | | | | USACE-agcp | | | | USACE-emp | | | |
