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Plant Characteristics

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Leaf Complexity: Palmate
Fruit Type: Capsule
Size Notes: "Plants: 2-22 cm." (webref: 3).
Leaf: "Leaves basal and cauline; basal: 1-6 per caudex, palmately compound, more or less 2-ternate or 3-ternate, leaflets 3; stipules adnate to petiole, forming 2 linear-lanceolate wings, unlobed, margins entire, apex of each wing free, acute; petiole 2-10.5 cm, usually puberulent; blade ovate to deltate, 2.4-5 x 3.5-4.5 cm, base tapered, ultimate leaflets dissected into oblong, elliptic, lanceolate, or oblanceolate lobes 1-7 mm wide, lobe margins entire, usually ciliate, apex acute to obtuse, mucronulate, surfaces usually puberulent, seldom glabrous, abaxial surface without prominent vein parallel to each margin; cauline similar to basal except: stipules linear, apex acuminate; petiole 2-5.7 cm, usually puberulent, rarely glabrous; blade 1-2.7 x 1.5-3 cm." (webref: 3).
Flower: "Peduncles 1.5-10.6(-15.7) cm, usually puberulent, seldom glabrous. Flowers: sepals lanceolate, margins eciliate, auricles 0.1-1 mm; petals dark reddish violet on both surfaces, lower 3 usually lilac, rarely white or whitish, lateral 2 bearded, with yellow patch basally, dark reddish violet-veined, lowest 10-22 mm, with yellow patch, dark reddish violet-veined, spur whitish or yellowish, tinged purple, gibbous, 0.5-2 mm; style head bearded; cleistogamous flowers absent." (webref: 3).
Fruit: "Capsules oblong-ovoid, 7-12 mm, glabrous. Seeds brown, 3-4 mm." (webref: 3).

Bloom Information

Bloom Color: White , Red , Purple , Violet
Bloom Time: Mar , Apr , May
Bloom Notes: "Petals dark reddish violet on both surfaces, lower 3 usually lilac, rarely white or whitish, lateral 2 bearded, with yellow patch basally, dark reddish violet-veined." (webref:3).

Distribution

USA: CA , ID , NV , OR , UT
Native Distribution: "California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah." (webref:3).
Native Habitat: "Dry or moist places, among shrubs or beneath pines; 900–2700 m." (webref: 3).

Web Reference

Webref 6 - Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database] (2018) USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
Webref 27 - USDA Plants Database (2018) USDA, NRCS.

Additional resources

USDA: Find Viola beckwithii ssp. beckwithii in USDA Plants
FNA: Find Viola beckwithii ssp. beckwithii in the Flora of North America (if available)
Google: Search Google for Viola beckwithii ssp. beckwithii