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Johnny jump-up

Habit Variable, glabrous or puberulent, annual or biennial, low or short plant.
Leaves

Leaves oval to broadly lanceolate, mostly basal;

stipules leaf-like, pinnately lobed, the end lobe longer.

Flowers

Flowers 10-25 mm. long, the spur long;

petals violet or yellow or both, longer than the sepals.

Fruits

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

Viola pinetorum

Viola tricolor

Flowering time April-September
Habitat Disturbed areas near cultivated setting in towns and cities, where escaping cultivation.
Distribution
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Occurring chiefly west of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, east across most of North America to the Atlantic Coast.
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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. 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
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. trinervata, V. ×wittrockiana
Subordinate taxa
V. tricolor ssp. tricolor
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