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Viola odorata

Viola vallicola

sweet blue violet
Habit Low, fragrant, creeping, soft-hairy perennial with stolons that root at the nodes. Perennial from short, erect rhizomes, the stems up to 15 cm. long.
Leaves

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

Leaf blades glabrous to sparsely hairy, entire, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, truncate or sub-cordate at the base, up to 5 cm. long;

petiole 3-10 cm. long;

stipules attached to the petiole, the free portion few-toothed.
Flowers

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

sepals blunt.

Flowers with peduncles shorter than the leaves;

flowers 8-15 mm. long, yellow, the upper petals brownish-backed, the lower 3 penciled with brownish-purple, the lateral pair bearded;

style head bearded, rounded.
Fruits

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

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

Viola odorata

Viola vallicola
Flowering time March-September April-July
Habitat Sheltered, disturbed areas in somewhat moist soil. Sagebrush and juniper flats, grasslands, and open coniferous forest.
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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Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to the Great Plains.
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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. selkirkii, V. sempervirens, V. sheltonii, V. sororia, V. tricolor, V. trinervata, V. ×wittrockiana
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