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