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European field pansy

Johnny jump-up

Habit Puberulent, freely-branched annual, 1-3 dm. tall. Variable, glabrous or puberulent, annual or biennial, low or short plant.
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 oval to broadly lanceolate, mostly basal;

stipules leaf-like, pinnately lobed, the end lobe longer.

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 10-25 mm. long, the spur long;

petals violet or yellow or both, longer than the sepals.

Fruits

Fruit a 3-valved capsule, ovary superior, placentation parieta

Fruit a 3-valved capsule, ovary superior, placentation parietal.

Viola arvensis

Viola tricolor

Flowering time March-June April-September
Habitat Fields, roadsides, wastelots, and other disturbed areas where escaping from cultivation. Disturbed areas near cultivated setting in towns and cities, where escaping cultivation.
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 chiefly west of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, east across most of North America to the Atlantic Coast.
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Origin Introduced from Europe Introduced from Europe
Conservation status Not of concern Not of concern
Sibling taxa
V. adunca, V. canadensis, V. flettii, V. glabella, V. howellii, V. lanceolata, V. langsdorffii, V. macloskeyi, V. nephrophylla, V. nuttallii, V. odorata, V. orbiculata, V. palustris, V. pluviae, V. purpurea, V. renifolia, V. riviniana, V. selkirkii, V. sempervirens, V. sheltonii, V. sororia, V. tricolor, V. trinervata, V. ×wittrockiana
V. adunca, V. arvensis, V. canadensis, V. flettii, V. glabella, V. howellii, V. lanceolata, V. langsdorffii, V. macloskeyi, V. nephrophylla, V. nuttallii, V. odorata, V. orbiculata, V. palustris, V. pluviae, V. purpurea, V. renifolia, V. riviniana, V. selkirkii, V. sempervirens, V. sheltonii, V. sororia, V. trinervata, V. ×wittrockiana
Subordinate taxa
V. tricolor ssp. tricolor
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