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Viola bakeri

Viola tricolor

Johnny jump-up
Habit Perennial from short, erect rhizomes, the stems up to 15 cm. long. Variable, glabrous or puberulent, annual or biennial, low or short plant.
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 oval to broadly lanceolate, mostly basal;

stipules leaf-like, pinnately lobed, the end lobe longer.
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 10-25 mm. long, the spur long;

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

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

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

Viola bakeri

Viola tricolor
Flowering time May-July April-September
Habitat Moist to dry openings in coniferous forests. Disturbed areas near cultivated setting in towns and cities, where escaping cultivation.
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 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 Native Introduced from Europe
Conservation status Not of concern Not of concern
Sibling taxa
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. 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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