Viola nephrophylla |
Viola trinervata |
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LeConte violet, northern bog violet |
desert pansy, 3-nerved violet, sagebrush violet |
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Habit | Glabrous, acaulescent perennial with shallow, fleshy, spreading rhizomes. | Glabrous, somewhat glaucous perennial from short, thick, very deep-seated rhizomes, the stems several, naked below, 5-15 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. |
Leaf blades palmately lobed or compound, the main segments once or twice dissected, the ultimate segments narrowly elliptic, 1.5-4 cm. long; leaves leathery, prominently 3-nerved on the lower surface; petioles longer than the blades. |
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 exceeding the leaves; flowers about 1.5 cm. long, usually bicolored, the upper pair deep reddish-violet, the lower 3 pale to deep lilac, with yellowish or whitish base and purple penciling, occasionally all white or all deep purple; style head hairy. |
Fruits | Capsule, 3-valved. |
Fruit a 3-valved capsule, ovary superior, placentation parietal. |
Viola nephrophylla |
Viola trinervata |
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Flowering time | May-July | March-June |
Habitat | Moist places, especially in meadows and along streams. | Sagebrush flats and rocky hillsides, often on lithosol, where vernally moist. |
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 east of the Cascades crest in Washington; north-central Washington to southeastern Oregon.
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Origin | Native | Native |
Conservation status | Not of concern | Not of concern |
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