Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Viola palmata L.

Origin: native

Scientific Synonyms: Viola ×festata House, Viola ×porteriana Pollard (pro sp.), Viola esculenta Ell., Viola falcata Greene, Viola palmata L. var. dilatata Ell., Viola palmata L. var. triloba (Schwein.) Gingins ex DC., Viola stoneana House, Viola triloba Schwein., Viola triloba Schwein. var. dilatata (Ell.) Brainerd

Common names:

Blue violet (1932, SD) (85)

Chicken-fighters [Chicken fighters] (1896-1923, Newton NC, among children who play game with flowers) (5, 76, 156)

Common blue violet (1895) (2)

Early blue violet (1907-Present) (5, 50, 72, 93, 156)

Hand-leaf violet [Hand-leaved violet] (1840-1923) (5, 19, 156)

Hood-leaf violet (1913) (5)

Johnny-jump-up (1913-1923) (5, 156)

Palm violet (1923-1937) (122, 138)

Palmate violet (1942) (155)

Roosters (1893-1913, Ferrisburgh VT) (5, 74)

Salad violet (1942) (155)

Stone's violet [Stones violet] (1942) (155)

Three-lobe violet [Three-lobed violet] (1913-1937) (5, 97)

Trilobe violet (1942) (155)

Viola virginiana platani fere foliis parvis et incanis (1768, Plukenet) (46)

Violet (1919) (107)

Wild okra (1919) (107)

Witmer Stone's violet (1913) (5)

Wood violet (1986) (4)