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small white violet

Habit Perennial from slender rhizomes, with filiform stolons, the leaves and peduncles rising from the rhizomes, the latter 3-6 cm. tall.
Leaves

Leaf blades ovate-cordate, 1-3 cm. long, with petioles 2-4 cm. long;

stipules lanceolate, membranous, with fine, gland-tipped teeth.

Flowers

Flowers 5-10 mm. long, the spur fairly prominent;

petals white, the lower 3 with purple penciling, the lateral pair bearded;

style head glabrous.

Fruits

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

Viola macloskeyi

Flowering time May-August
Habitat Boggy and wet ground from low to mid-elevations in the mountains.
Distribution
Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington;d British Columbia to California, east to the Atlantic Coast..
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Origin Native
Conservation status Not of concern
Sibling taxa
V. adunca, V. arvensis, V. canadensis, V. flettii, V. glabella, V. howellii, V. lanceolata, V. langsdorffii, 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
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