Viola selkirkii |
Viola sempervirens |
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great spurred violet, Selkirk's violet |
evergreen violet, redwood violet |
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Habit | Puberulent perennial from scaly rhizomes, with slender, elongate stolons, the aerial stems up two 5 cm. long. | |
Leaves | Leaves blades cordate-lanceolate to cordate-ovate, 1-3 cm. broad, thick and leathery, persisting through the winter; petioles 2-10 cm. long; herbage spotted with tiny purplish blotches; stipules brownish, lanceolate, membranous, mostly entire. |
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Flowers | Flowers 5-15 mm. long, the spur short, saccate; peduncles exceeding the leaves; petals lemon-yellow to gold, the lower 3 purplish-penciled, the lateral pair yellow-bearded; style head short-bearded. |
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Fruits | Fruit a purplish-mottled, 3-valved capsule, ovary superior, placentation parietal, seeds brown. |
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Viola selkirkii |
Viola sempervirens |
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Flowering time | May-July | March-June |
Habitat | Damp forests and thickets. | Moist woods from low to middle elevations in the mountains. |
Distribution | 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.
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Occurring west of the Cascades crest and east in the Columbia River Gorge in Washington; British Columbia to California.
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Origin | Native | Native |
Conservation status | Not of concern | Not of concern |
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