Viola affinis LeConte. Kim’s notes, re-arranged not edited. Illustrations: 8 photographs of Viola affinis and 4 drawings (3 of Kim’s pencil drawings and notes Small stemless perennial, 5-12 cm high. Rhizome small ascending to vertical. Leaves narrowly ovate, tip acuminate, base cordate, glabrous, margins denticulate, 3- 4cm long; stipules colourless to scarious, glabrous, free, margins…
Category: Stemless
Viola egglestonii Brainerd
Viola egglestonii Kim’s rough notes. Illustrations: 2 photographs of Viola egglestonia (1 of seedpod), 1 drawing. Section Nosphinium, subsect. Boreali-Americanae [NEW classification, 2010]. name accepted by ITIS. Name V. septemloba LeConte ssp. egglestonii (Brainerd) McKinney is not accepted by ITIS. IPNI lists it as: Viola septemloba subsp. egglestonii (Brainerd) McKinney — Sida, Bot. Misc. 7:…
Viola charlestonensis, M.S. Baker & J.C. Clausen
Viola charlestonensis Kim’s unfinished notes. Illustrations: 2 photographs of Viola charlestonensis and 2 drawings. Clockey, Madroño 8: 58. 1945. I.W. Clockey was a plant collector. Type collected in the Nevada area, 23 May, 1937. Diploid species, 2n=2x=12, where x is the base chromosome number for section Chamaemelanium. SW Utah and Clarke County, Nevada glaucous thick…
Viola langsdorffii
Viola langsdorffii (Regel) Fisch. Description. Illustrations: 5 photographs of Viola langsdorffii and 3 drawings. The Alaska violet grows in species-rich alpine meadows in mountain ranges of the North American northwest coast, and on the island of Unalaska in the Aleutian chain. It appears to be stemless at flowering, but later produces several tall, well-developed stems….
Viola umbraticola
Viola umbraticola Kunth (or HBK.) var glaberrima Becker Description. Illustrations: 3 photographs of Viola umbraticola and 1 drawing. A xerophytic member of subsection Rostratae, similar in appearance to Viola adunca (with which it is often confused) except for its lack of stems. The plants are small with blue flowers scarcely above the leaves, partly obscured…
Viola tricolor
Viola tricolor Introduced species, not described. Illustrations: 3 photographs of Viola tricolor. From Wikipedia: Viola tricolor, Also known as Johnny Jump up (though this name is also applied to similar species such as the yellow pansy), heartsease, heart’s ease,heart’s delight, tickle-my-fancy, Jack-jump-up-and-kiss-me, come-and-cuddle-me, three faces in a hood, or love-in-idleness, is a common European wild…