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sweet blue violet

Habit Low, fragrant, creeping, soft-hairy perennial with stolons that root at the nodes.
Leaves

Leaves tufted, cordate and rounded, petiolate, enlarging in summer.

Flowers

Flowers blue-violet or white, rarely lilac, pink or yellow;

sepals blunt.

Fruits

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

Viola odorata

Viola sagittata

Flowering time March-September
Habitat Sheltered, disturbed areas in somewhat moist soil.
Distribution
Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to Idaho; also in eastern North America.
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Origin Introduced from Europe
Conservation status Not of concern
Sibling taxa
V. adunca, V. arvensis, V. canadensis, V. flettii, V. glabella, V. howellii, V. lanceolata, V. langsdorffii, V. macloskeyi, V. nephrophylla, V. nuttallii, 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
V. adunca, V. arvensis, V. canadensis, V. flettii, V. glabella, V. howellii, V. lanceolata, V. langsdorffii, V. macloskeyi, 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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