Burke: Viola odorata vs. Viola selkirkii

	Viola odorata	Viola selkirkii
	sweet blue violet	great spurred violet, Selkirk's 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 selkirkii
Flowering time	March-September	May-July
Habitat	Sheltered, disturbed areas in somewhat moist soil.	Damp forests and thickets.
Distribution	Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to Idaho; also in eastern North America. [WildflowerSearch map] [BONAP county map]	Occurring east of the Cascades crest in the northeast counties in Washington; Alaska to northesast Washington, east across the northern U.S. and Canada to the Atlantic Coast. [WildflowerSearch map] [BONAP county map]
Origin	Introduced from Europe	Native
Conservation status	Not of concern	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. sempervirens, V. sheltonii, V. sororia, V. tricolor, V. trinervata, V. ×wittrockiana
Web links	Local floras: BC, CA, OR, WA Local Web sites: CalFlora, CalPhotos, Flora NW, PNW Herbaria WildflowerSearch iNaturalist (observations) USDA Plants Database LBJ Wildflower Center SEINet Plants of the World Online Encyclopedia of Life Wikipedia Google Image Search	Local floras: BC, WA Local Web sites: Flora NW, PNW Herbaria WildflowerSearch iNaturalist (observations) USDA Plants Database LBJ Wildflower Center SEINet Plants of the World Online Encyclopedia of Life Wikipedia Google Image Search

Viola odorata

Viola selkirkii

sweet blue violet

great spurred violet, Selkirk's 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 selkirkii

Flowering time

March-September

May-July

Habitat

Sheltered, disturbed areas in somewhat moist soil.

Damp forests and thickets.

Distribution

Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to Idaho; also in eastern North America.

[WildflowerSearch map]

[BONAP county map]

Occurring east of the Cascades crest in the northeast counties in Washington; Alaska to northesast Washington, east across the northern U.S. and Canada to the Atlantic Coast.

[WildflowerSearch map]

[BONAP county map]

Origin

Introduced from Europe

Native

Conservation status

Not of concern

Sibling taxa