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Pine violet

Viola lobata

Also called Yellow Wood Violet, Moosehorn Violet

Pine violet
Photo: Walter Siegmund (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Violaceae (Violet family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Oregon to Mexico (Baja California Norte)
Climate
temperate

About

Viola lobata is a species of violet known by the common name pine violet. It is native to western North America from southern Oregon through California and into northern Baja California, where it occurs in mountain ranges and foothills. It grows in woodlands and other habitat. This rhizomatous herb produces an erect stem a few centimeters tall or growing to nearly half a meter in maximum height. The leaves have variously shaped blades borne on long petioles. The blades are 5 to 15 centimeters wide and may be hairless, hairy, or waxy in texture. The leaf blades are often divided into narrow lobes or dissected into small segments. The shape of the leaf blade differentiates the two subspecies; ssp. lobata has dissected leaves and ssp. integrifolia has entire or toothed blades. A solitary flower is borne on a long, upright stem.

Other Viola plants

Viola abbreviata · Viola abyssinica · Hookedspur violet · White Violet · Viola angustifolia · Field Pansy · Australian Native Violet · Viola betonicifolia · Viola lutea subsp. calaminaria · Canadian white violet · Horned Pansy · Viola cotyledon

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Viola lobata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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