| Viola biflora L. | |||
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| Family | Violaceae — APG family: Violaceae | ||
| Description | Thin stems from more or less horizontal rootstock; basal leaves 2—3, broadly reni- form to orbiculate, cordate at base, with short, acute apex, crenate-serrate, glabrous or nearly so above, pubescent on veins beneath; stipules ovate-lanceolate; sepals lanceolate; petals yellow to pale yellow, with brownish-violet stripes; spur very short. | ||
| Ecology | Alpine meadows, scree slopes. Described from the Alps of Lapland, Austria, Switzerland, and England. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. caucasica Rupr. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.