Viola praemorsa var. praemorsa
Common names: Astoria yellow montane hairy violet violette jaune des monts
IllustratedEndemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 6. Treatment on page 147.
Plants 5.5–21.5 cm. Leaves: basal: petiole 2.6–13.8 cm; blade usually narrowly to broadly ovate, sometimes oblong-lanceolate to ± orbiculate or ± elliptic, 1.7–5.9 (–7.3) × 0.8–3.3 cm, length 1.1–3 times width, base ± truncate to subcordate, margins ± crenate to serrate or entire; cauline similar to basal except: petiole 1.7–11.5 cm; blade 2.3–5.8 (–6.7) × 1.1–3.5 cm. Peduncles 4.4–16.5 cm. Lowest petal 12–15 (–18) mm. Capsules 6–11 mm. Seeds dark-brown. 2n = 36.
Phenology: Flowering Mar–Jul.
Habitat: Vernally moist slopes and banks, meadows, grassy areas, open forests, sagebrush, shade or open areas
Elevation: 100–2500 m
Distribution
B.C., Calif., Oreg., Wash.
Discussion
In British Columbia, var. praemorsa is known only from southeastern Vancouver Island and adjacent Saltspring Island (G. W. Douglas and M. Ryan 1998).
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
"thick" is not a number. "narrow" is not a number.
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not mottled +
free +
acute;acuminate +
oblique +
overlapping +
1.1-3 +
alternate +
absent +
muriculate +
1.1-6.5 +
arillate +
glabrous +
0;5 +
spurred +
developed +
axillary +
absent +
cleistogamous +
loculicidal +
Vernally moist slopes and banks, meadows, grassy areas, open forests, sagebrush, shade or open areas +
variously--shaped +
Present +
1(-3)[-5]-flowered +
axillary +
bearded +
bearded +
not leaflike +
alternate +
shorter +
unlobed +
larger +
showy +
not narrowed +
crenate +
protruding +
connivent +
syngenesious +
parietal +
superior +
surrounding +
anatropous +
8;75 +
not jointed +
imbricate +
unequal +
deep +
showy +
bearded +
[2-]3[-5]-carpellate +
gland-tipped +
Edwards’s Bot. Reg. +
1829 +
scapose +
deep-seated +
vertical +
subligneous +
arillate +
dark-brown +
glabrous +
6;75 +
ovoid;spherical +
hard +
entire +
lanceolate +
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equal +
longitudinal +
annual +
elongated +
gibbous +
connivent +
dehiscing +
lower +
leafy +
shallow +
deciduous +
prostrate +
withering +
erect;decumbent;erect;decumbent +
1;3 +
thick +
adnate +
proximal +
lanceolate;ovate +
scapose +
thin +
bearded +
enlarged +
Viola praemorsa var. praemorsa +
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variety +
perennial +
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