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Document Type
Research
Abstract
Viola pedata L., the birdfoot violet, occasionally displays unusual variation in leaf shape in the southeastern United States. No satisfactory explanation for this has yet been provided. Analyses of variation in a colony with normal leaf shapes, one with the unusual leaf variants, and a neighboring population of Viola primulifolia L. subsp. villosa (Eaton) Russell leads to the hypothesis that the leaf variation is due to hybridization and subsequent introgression between V. pedata and V. primulifolia subsp. villosa.
Publication Date
1960
Journal Title
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science
Volume
67
Issue
1
First Page
189
Last Page
194
Copyright
©1960 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Russell, Norman H. and Bowen, William R.
(1960)
"A Hypothesis to Account for Unusual Leaf Variation in Viola pedata L.,"
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 67(1), 189-194.
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https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol67/iss1/26