Viola purpurea var. purpurea

Common names: Mountain violet
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 6. Treatment on page 151. Mentioned on page 150, 152, 153.

Plants 3–25 cm. Stems spreading to erect, usually not buried, usually elongated by end of season, ± glabrous or puberulent. Leaves: basal: 1–5; petiole 4–11 cm, puberulent; blade purple-tinted abaxially, green adaxially, often shiny, ± orbiculate to widely ovate, 1.6–4.6 (–5.3) × 1.6–4.1 cm, ± fleshy, base usually attenuate, sometimes subcordate or truncate, margins irregularly crenate, apex acute to obtuse, abaxial surface glabrous or puberulent, hairs sometimes only on veins, adaxial surface usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely puberulent; cauline: petiole 1.5–19.7 cm, usually puberulent; blade ovate, deltate, or lanceolate, 1.2–4.5 × 0.8–2.5 cm, length 1–2.3 times width, base usually attenuate, sometimes ± cordate or truncate, margins crenate-serrate, abaxial surface puberulent (or along veins), adaxial surface glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Peduncles 4.5–10 cm, usually puberulent, sometimes glabrous. Lowest petals 10–12 mm. Capsules 5–6 mm. Seeds dark-brown, 2.1–2.3 mm.


Phenology: Flowering Mar–Jul.
Habitat: In openings or beneath shrubs, usually in yellow pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests or higher
Elevation: 200–2900 m

Distribution

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Oreg., Mexico (Baja California)

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"thick" is not a number. "narrow" is not a number."elongated" is not a number.

puberulent +  and glabrous +
pubescent +, glabrous +  and puberulent +
acute;obtuse +
not +  and prominent +
R. John Little +  and Landon E. McKinney† +
Kellogg +
not +  and oblique +
cordate +, attenuate +, truncate +  and subcordate +
overlapping +
4.6 cm46 mm <br />0.046 m <br /> (5.3 cm53 mm <br />0.053 m <br />) +
green +  and purple-tinted +
1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (4.5 cm45 mm <br />0.045 m <br />) +
lanceolate +, deltate +, ovate +, less orbiculate +  and widely ovate +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
muriculate +
ovoid +  and more or less spherical +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br /> (5.2 cm52 mm <br />0.052 m <br />) +
puberulent +  and glabrous +
lanceolate +, deltate +, elliptic +, oblong +, more or less oblong +  and ovate +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (2.9 cm29 mm <br />0.029 m <br />) +
Mountain violet +
Oreg. +  and Mexico (Baja California) +
ovoid +  and spheroid +
200–2900 m +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br />) +
lateral +  and upper +
2 +  and produced in summer , apetalous or petals +
cleistogamous +
3-valved +  and capsular +
loculicidal +
In openings or beneath shrubs, usually in yellow pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests or higher +
stoloniferous +, rhizomatous +, taprooted +  and simple +
scattered +  and concentrated +
variously--shaped +
1(-3)[-5]-flowered +
petiolate +  and simple +
cauline +  and basal +
unlobed +
not narrowed +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
eciliate +  and ciliate +
syngenesious +
crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
glabrous +  and puberulent +
4.5 cm45 mm <br />0.045 m <br /> (10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br />) +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (19.7 cm197 mm <br />0.197 m <br />) +
Flowering Mar–Jul. +
[2-]3[-5]-carpellate +
lanceolate;more or less deltate +
Pacific (San Francisco), +
deep-seated +
subligneous +
dark-brown +
ovoid;spherical +
0.21 cm2.1 mm <br />0.0021 m <br /> (0.23 cm2.3 mm <br />0.0023 m <br />) +
subequal +
longitudinal +
Illustrated +
acaulescent +  and caulescent +
elongated +
gibbous +
adherent +, not adherent +  and distinct +
shallow +
deciduous +
prostrate +  and decumbent +
spreading;erect +
puberulent +  and glabrous +
subligneous +  and fleshy +
hollow +  and solid +
beardless +  and bearded +
enlarged +
tomentose +, puberulent +  and glabrous +
Chrysion +, Crocion +  and Lophion +
Viola purpurea var. purpurea +
Viola purpurea +
variety +
not stoloniferous +  and caulescent +
prostrate +  and erect +
hairy +  and glabrous +
laciniate +  and entire +
membranous +