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Viola flettii

Viola odorata
Viola flettii

Flett's violet, Olympic violet

sweet blue violet
Habit Glabrous perennial from short, thick rhizomes, the stems 3-15 cm. long. Low, fragrant, creeping, soft-hairy perennial with stolons that root at the nodes.
Leaves

Leaves fleshy, petiolate, purplish-green, the blades reniform, 1.5-4 cm. broad, finely round-toothed;

stipules lanceolate, toothed.

Leaves tufted, cordate and rounded, petiolate, enlarging in summer.
Flowers

Flowers 1.5 cm. long, the spur very short, yellow;

petals purplish-violet, yellow at the base, the lower 3 dark-veined, the lateral pair yellow-bearded;

style head well bearded.

Flowers blue-violet or white, rarely lilac, pink or yellow;

sepals blunt.
Fruits

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

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

Viola flettii

Viola odorata
Flowering time June-August March-September
Habitat Alpine rock crevices and talus slopes at high elevations. Sheltered, disturbed areas in somewhat moist soil.
Distribution
Occurring west of the Cascades crest in Washington, where endemic to the Olympic Mountains
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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 Native Introduced from Europe
Conservation status Review Group 1 in Washington (WANHP) Not of concern
Sibling taxa
V. adunca, V. arvensis, V. canadensis, 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. 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
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