Viola nephrophylla |
Viola adunca |
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LeConte violet, northern bog violet |
early blue violet, wild dog violet |
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Habit | Glabrous, acaulescent perennial with shallow, fleshy, spreading rhizomes. | Glabrous to densely puberulent perennial from slender rhizomes, from stemless to 10 cm. tall. |
Leaves | Leaf blades deeply ovate-cordate to cordate-triangular, up to 7 cm. in width, with rounded teeth; petioles 5-25 cm. long; stipules linear-lanceolate, entire. |
Leaves short- to long-petiolate, the blade cordate-ovate to lance-ovate, with fine, rounded teeth, 1-3 cm. long; stipules liner-lanceolate, 3-10 mm. long, entire to remotely slender-toothed. |
Flowers | Flowers solitary, 10-20 mm. long, on peduncles usually exceeding the leaves; spur short, saccate; petals 5, bluish-violet, the lower 3 whitish at the base, prominently bearded, the upper pair sometimes not bearded; style glabrous. |
Flowers 5-15 mm. long, the spur on the lowest petal slender, over half the length of the petal; petals blue to deep violet, the lower three with a whitish base penciled in violet, the lateral pair white-bearded; style head bearded with thick hairs. Some flowers also cleistogamous (do not open up but do self-pollinate and produce seed). |
Fruits | Capsule, 3-valved. |
Fruit a 3-valved capsule, ovary superior, placentation parietal. |
Viola nephrophylla |
Viola adunca |
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Flowering time | May-July | April-August |
Habitat | Moist places, especially in meadows and along streams. | Dry to moist meadows and open woods, from the lowlands to subalpine areas. |
Distribution | Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest in Washington; Yukon Territory to California, east across most of North America to the Atlantic Coast.
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Widely distributed on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, east across North America to the Atlantic Coast.
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Origin | Native | Native |
Conservation status | Not of concern | Not of concern |
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