Viola nephrophylla |
Viola sempervirens |
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LeConte violet, northern bog violet |
evergreen violet, redwood violet |
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Habit | Glabrous, acaulescent perennial with shallow, fleshy, spreading rhizomes. | Puberulent perennial from scaly rhizomes, with slender, elongate stolons, the aerial stems up two 5 cm. long. |
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 blades cordate-lanceolate to cordate-ovate, 1-3 cm. broad, thick and leathery, persisting through the winter; petioles 2-10 cm. long; herbage spotted with tiny purplish blotches; stipules brownish, lanceolate, membranous, mostly entire. |
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 short, saccate; peduncles exceeding the leaves; petals lemon-yellow to gold, the lower 3 purplish-penciled, the lateral pair yellow-bearded; style head short-bearded. |
Fruits | Capsule, 3-valved. |
Fruit a purplish-mottled, 3-valved capsule, ovary superior, placentation parietal, seeds brown. |
Viola nephrophylla |
Viola sempervirens |
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Flowering time | May-July | March-June |
Habitat | Moist places, especially in meadows and along streams. | Moist woods from low to middle 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 west of the Cascades crest and east in the Columbia River Gorge in Washington; British Columbia to California.
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Origin | Native | Native |
Conservation status | Not of concern | Not of concern |
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