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| Characteristics: |
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Habitat: |
rich, moist woods, stream banks |
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Plant Height: |
15-30 cm; multiple stems short rhizomes |
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Flower Color: |
white to cream colored |
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Flower: |
2.5 cm wide; complete; perfect; irregular; 5 linear sepals; 5 petals with purple venation inside; lateral petals bearded; lower petal spurred at base; 5 stamens, connate around ovary, lower two with curved nectaries; ovary conic, glabrous; style triangular at tip with bristles near apex |
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Inflorescence: |
single flower from leaf axil; long, glabrous peduncle, curved at apex |
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Fruit: |
capsule |
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Leaves: |
glabrous; serrate; reniform to cordate; stipules at base of petiole |
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Bloom Time: |
late April-early June |
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Origins: |
native |
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Other: |
this is an easy Viola to identify because of the lacerate stipules, cream-colored flowers, and flowers arising from the leaf axils | |