Blooms: April - September
Habit: herb
Duration: annual
Origin: Introduced
Distribution: Garden escape in scattered locations throughout Washington; similarly escaped throughout most of North America.
Habitat: Disturbed areas near cultivated setting in towns and cities.
Habit: herb
Duration: annual
Origin: Introduced
Distribution: Garden escape in scattered locations throughout Washington; similarly escaped throughout most of North America.
Habitat: Disturbed areas near cultivated setting in towns and cities.
Species Description:
General: 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.
General: 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.
Accepted Name:
Viola tricolor L.Synonyms:
(none)
Treated in Flora of the PNW as:
(not treated in H&C)
Additional Resources:
PNW Herbaria Specimens: View list of Viola tricolor specimens in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database.
WTU Herbarium Specimens: View list of Viola tricolor specimens in the WTU Herbarium database.
Washington Flora Checklist: Viola tricolor treatment.
E-Flora BC: Viola tricolor atlas page.
CalPhotos: Viola tricolor images.
USDA Plants Database: Viola tricolor.
Ben Legler, 2003
Ben Legler, 2003
G. D. Carr, 1983
G. D. Carr, 1985
G. D. Carr, 1985
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