Viola arvensis |
Viola odorata |
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European field pansy |
sweet blue violet |
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Habit | Puberulent, freely-branched annual, 1-3 dm. tall. | Low, fragrant, creeping, soft-hairy perennial with stolons that root at the nodes. |
Leaves | Leaf blades ovate to lanceolate, coarsely round-toothed, 1-3 cm. long, about equaling the petioles; stipules very large, laciniate into 5-9 segments, usually with one leaf-like segment nearly as large as the main blade. |
Leaves tufted, cordate and rounded, petiolate, enlarging in summer. |
Flowers | Flowers long-pedunculate, solitary in the leaf axils, whitish or light yellow with a tinge of blue, the spur short; sepals lanceolate, about as long as the petals; style head copiously short-hairy. |
Flowers blue-violet or white, rarely lilac, pink or yellow; sepals blunt. |
Fruits | Fruit a 3-valved capsule, ovary superior, placentation parieta |
Fruit a 3-valved capsule, ovary superior, placentation parietal. |
Viola arvensis |
Viola odorata |
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Flowering time | March-June | March-September |
Habitat | Fields, roadsides, wastelots, and other disturbed areas where escaping from cultivation. | Sheltered, disturbed areas in somewhat moist soil. |
Distribution | Occurring chiefly west of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east across most of North America to the Atlantic Coast.
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Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to Idaho; also in eastern North America.
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Origin | Introduced from Europe | Introduced from Europe |
Conservation status | Not of concern | Not of concern |
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