Viola palustris (Marsh Violet) - photos and description
Side petals lightly bearded
General: Small stemless violet with flower scapes
growing to about the level of the leaves. Plants are glabrous. Plants
with numerous runners.
Taxonomic
key to Saskatchewan's violets.
Flowers: Flowers solitary on scapes, they are pale violet with the lower lip having dark purple veins. Side petals with lightly bearded. Flowers measured about 1 cm wide, spur 6 mm long, 2 mm wide, spur petal to 14 mm long.
Leaves: Leaves are basal, orbicular to cordate, rounded teeth and a sharp apex. We measured leaves to 3 cm long and 3 cm wide.
Height: We measured plants to a height of 11 cm.
Habitat: Bogs and stream banks in the parklands and boreal forest.
Abundance: Common.
Origin: Native.
When and where photographed: Photos taken June 4th, wet area on the edge of black spruce forest, Porcupine Provincial Forest, 450 km north east of our home in Regina, SK.