Frequent in a calcareous sandy flatwoods with well developed buttress, shallow ephemeral pond, and wet to wet-mesic lawn communities

Even though the spur petals are bearded, these plants have short clavate hairs on the lateral petals, peduncles that are much longer than the leaves even in late plants, elongated sepal auricles in fruit, and a wetland habitat which are a good match for V. cucullata

In a wet to wet-mesic morainal woodland

Leaves deltoid, generally glabrous aside from a few strigose hairs on the upper surface towards the bases. Cleistogamous seed capsules on erect peduncles, unspotted, with prominent auricles