Viola nephrophylla |
Viola purpurea |
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LeConte violet, northern bog violet |
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Habit | Glabrous, acaulescent perennial with shallow, fleshy, spreading rhizomes. | Puberulent perennial from a slender, scaly rhizome, the aerial stems 5-15 mm. long; herbage usually glaucous-green, purplish-veined, often purplish throughout. |
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. |
Leaf blades rather thick and fleshy, orbicular to lanceolate, cordate to wedge-shaped at the base, sub-entire to wavy-margined or toothed; petioles 2-6 cm. long; stipules lanceolate, entire to few-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. |
Peduncles shorter than the leaves; flowers 5-12 mm. long, spur very short; petals yellow, brownish-penciled, the lateral pair bearded. |
Fruits | Capsule, 3-valved. |
Fruit a 3-valved, puberulent capsule, ovary superior, placentation parietal. |
Viola nephrophylla |
Viola purpurea |
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Flowering time | May-July | May-August |
Habitat | Moist places, especially in meadows and along streams. | Open, rocky, fairly dry slopes, moderate to high elevations in the mountains |
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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Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to Rocky Mountains.
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Origin | Native | Native |
Conservation status | Not of concern | Not of concern |
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