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Great-spurred or Selkirk's Violet 

 Viola Selkirk ii Pursh 



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Leaves and scajx-s 2 to 4 inches high from a slender rootstock or stolon. 

 Leaf blades thin. crcnatc margined. ovate t<> suborbicular. deeply heart- 

 shaped. the basal lolx.-s converging <>r overlapping; leaves small at flowering 

 time. when mature I to 2 inches wide. smixith except for minute, spreading 

 hairs on the upper surface of the leaves. Flowers pale violet, not bearded, 

 the spur 2 to 4 lines long and much enlarged toward the rounded end. 



In shaded ravines and cool mountain forests, New Brunswick to Penn- 

 sylvania and Minnesota, north to Greenland. In central New York its 

 favorite habitat is the moss-covered rocks and boulders beneath limestone 

 cliffs and shaded by dense forests of mixed hanlwcxxls and hemlock. Flow- 

 ering in April and May. 



Large-leaved White Violet 



Viola infORiiita Hrainerd 



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Foliage somewhat pulx-scent with soft, white hai: tially when 



young, upper leaf surfaces smooth. Leaves ascending from slender root- 

 stocks. Ixaf blades at flowering time orbicular or renifonn. two-thinls to 

 2 inches wide, abruptly short pointed at the ajn x. cordate at the base: 

 summer leaves with large, somewhat roughened blades, broadly ovate. 

 cordate with an open sinus, acute. 2 to 4 inches wi<U or larger. Flowers 

 white, on stalks as long as tin leaves at flowering time, the lateral petals 

 bearded, the upper pair obovate: seeds brown. In summer the plants 

 produce numerous filiform runners. 



Mountainous and low, moist woodlands, Newfoundland to Dakota and 

 south to Tennessee. 



The Kidney-leaved White Violet (Viola renifolia A. Gray) is 

 densely pubescent throughout, with reniform leaf blades which are dis- 

 tantly crenate-serrate on the margins and rounded at the apex; petals 

 white, all beardless, the three lower with brownish veins. In Arbor Vitae 



