VIOLET FAMILY 
( Violacece) 
(A) Bird-Foot Violet (Viola pedata ) is a well 
known and very characteristic violet. The flowers of 
this species are the largest of the blue violets; they 
are blue-violet or purple-violet and have a bright orange 
center, formed by the large anthers. 
The leaves grow on long petioles, in dense tufts, from 
the root; each leaf is cut into five to eleven parts, all 
sharply pointed, and the middle and lateral ones with 
their ends notched or cleft. 
(B) Early Blue Violet; Palmated Violet (Viola 
palmata ) has slightly smaller blue flowers with bearded 
side petals. 
The basal leaves are very variable in shape, ranging 
from heart-shaped with rounded teeth and an un¬ 
broken edge to palmately cleft ones with five or seven 
rounded lobes. Both of these violets are common in 
dry ground, the former in fields or the borders of 
swamps, and the latter usually in thin woodland, from 
Me. to Minn, and southwards. 
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