Viola ocellata

Torrey & A. Gray

Fl. N. Amer. 1: 142. 1838.

Common names: Western heart's ease or two-eyed or southern two-eyed violet
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 6. Treatment on page 140. Mentioned on page 117, 129, 131.

Plants perennial, caulescent, not stoloniferous, 2–37 cm. Stems 1–3, ascending to erect, ± glabrous or usually puberulent, on caudex from shallow, fleshy rhizome or deep-seated caudex with fleshy roots. Leaves basal and cauline; basal: 1–6; stipules deltate, margins laciniate, apex usually long-acuminate; petiole 3.7–10 cm, puberulent; blade ovate, deltate, or subreniform, 1–6 × 1.2–4 cm, base usually cordate to subcordate, margins crenate, usually ciliate, apex acute, mucronulate, surfaces usually sparsely puberulent, glabrous early; cauline similar to basal except: stipules lanceolate, margins ±fimbriate, sometimes stipitate-glandular, sometimes entire, erose, or ± laciniate; petiole 0.4–9 cm; blade ovate to deltate, 1.6–4.4 × 1.1–3.6 cm, base subcordate to truncate, margins crenate to ± serrate, ciliate, apex acute to obtuse. Peduncles 1–10 cm, puberulent. Flowers: sepals lanceolate, margins ciliate, auricles 0.5–1.5 mm; petals white adaxially, upper 2 and sometimes lower 3 deep reddish violet abaxially, all with yellow area basally, lateral 2 with purple patch basally distal to smaller yellow area, bearded, lowest with yellow patch basally, purple-veined, 5–15 mm, spur yellow or greenish, gibbous, 1–2.5 mm; style head bearded; cleistogamous flowers axillary. Capsules spherical to spherical-ovoid, 5–11 mm, minutely scabrous. Seeds brown-purple, ca. 2 mm. 2n = 12.


Phenology: Flowering Mar–Jul.
Habitat: Rocky areas, grassy banks, thickets, often on serpentine soil
Elevation: 100–1100 m

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... more about "Viola ocellata"
acute;obtuse +
not +  and prominent +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br />) +
R. John Little +  and Landon E. McKinney† +
Torrey & A. Gray +
subcordate +  and truncate +
overlapping +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br />) +
ovate +  and deltate +
1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
tomentose +, puberulent +  and glabrous +
muriculate +
spherical +  and spherical-ovoid +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br />) +
deep-seated +
1.6 cm16 mm <br />0.016 m <br /> (4.4 cm44 mm <br />0.044 m <br />) +
1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br /> (3.6 cm36 mm <br />0.036 m <br />) +
Western heart's ease or two-eyed or southern two-eyed violet +
Calif. +  and Oreg. +
ovoid +  and spheroid +
100–1100 m +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br />) +
2 +  and produced in summer , apetalous or petals +
cleistogamous +
3-valved +  and capsular +
loculicidal +
Rocky areas, grassy banks, thickets, often on serpentine soil +
stoloniferous +, rhizomatous +, taprooted +  and simple +
scattered +  and concentrated +
variously--shaped +
1(-3)[-5]-flowered +
petiolate +  and simple +
cauline +  and basal +
unlobed +
not narrowed +
serrate +  and entire +
stipitate-glandular +
crenate to more +, laciniate +, fimbriate +  and crenate +
syngenesious +
crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br />) +
purple-veined +
yellow patch +, reddish violet +  and white +
lowest +, lateral +, lower +  and upper +
2 +  and 3 +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (9 cm90 mm <br />0.09 m <br />) +
Flowering Mar–Jul. +
[2-]3[-5]-carpellate +
Fl. N. Amer. +
deep-seated +
ovoid;spherical +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (?) +
lanceolate +
subequal +
longitudinal +
yellow +  and purple patch +
acaulescent +  and caulescent +
greenish +  and yellow +
elongated +
gibbous +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
adherent +, not adherent +  and distinct +
leafy +  and simple +
shallow +
deciduous +
prostrate +  and decumbent +
ascending;erect +
puberulent +  and glabrous +
subligneous +  and fleshy +
lanceolate;deltate +
hollow +  and solid +
beardless +  and bearded +
enlarged +
glabrous +  and puberulent +
Chrysion +, Crocion +  and Lophion +
Viola ocellata +
species +
not stoloniferous +  and caulescent +
prostrate +  and erect +
hairy +  and glabrous +