Viola bakeri |
Viola sempervirens |
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evergreen violet, redwood violet |
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Habit | Perennial from short, erect rhizomes, the stems up to 15 cm. long. | Puberulent perennial from scaly rhizomes, with slender, elongate stolons, the aerial stems up two 5 cm. long. |
Leaves | Leaf blades entire, elliptic-lanceolate, tapering to the petiole, 2-5 cm. long; petiole 3-12 cm. long; stipules attached to the petiole, the free portion few-toothed. |
Leaves blades cordate-lanceolate to cordate-ovate, 1-3 cm. broad, thick and leathery, persisting through the winter; petioles 2-10 cm. long; herbage spotted with tiny purplish blotches; stipules brownish, lanceolate, membranous, mostly entire. |
Flowers | Flowers with peduncles shorter than the leaves; flowers 5-12 mm. long, yellow, the lower 3 penciled with brownish-purple, the lateral pair bearded; style head bearded, rounded. |
Flowers 5-15 mm. long, the spur short, saccate; peduncles exceeding the leaves; petals lemon-yellow to gold, the lower 3 purplish-penciled, the lateral pair yellow-bearded; style head short-bearded. |
Fruits | a glabrous, 3-valved capsule, ovary superior, placentation parietal. |
Fruit a purplish-mottled, 3-valved capsule, ovary superior, placentation parietal, seeds brown. |
Viola bakeri |
Viola sempervirens |
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Flowering time | May-July | March-June |
Habitat | Moist to dry openings in coniferous forests. | Moist woods from low to middle elevations in the mountains. |
Distribution | Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest in Washington from Mt. Adams south; south-central Washington to California and Nevada.
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Occurring west of the Cascades crest and east in the Columbia River Gorge in Washington; British Columbia to California.
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Origin | Native | Native |
Conservation status | Not of concern | Not of concern |
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