This species has been revived by Ballard et al (2023), but they stated: "Many of its morphological features appear to be somewhat intermediate between or shared by either V. communis and V. sororia, and this taxon is almost undoubtedly a cultigen of plant breeders, perhaps descending from hybrids between both of those species but more similar to V. communis. It seems virtually confined to heavily cultivated sites, seeming scarcely to escape from where it was planted and only then to other nearby plantings or actively disturbed microsites." V. domestica presumably occurs in Ky., but in their initial mapping Ballard et al. have only included a few colls. from Mass., N.Y., Pa., N.Car. and Mo, It is distinguished from communis as follows: foliage light to medium green (versus deep green with occasional purplish tinge on petioles and peduncles); upper blade surfaces glabrous (versus sometimes with scattered minute appressed hairs), scarcely glossy to dull in life (versus glossy); largest blades broadly ovate to reniform (versus suborbiculate to deltate-ovate), margins somewhat coarsely crenate-serrate (versus closely and unifromly so), lowest sepals oblong-lanceolate (versus ovate-triangular), convexly tapering to acute apex (versus acuminate to sharply acute); auricles quadrate, truncate (versus trapezoidal) cleistogenous peduncles arching or ascending (versus prostrate and coiled to sinuous-erect). V. communis is also close to pratincola, especially in cleistogamous fruit.