Early Blue Violet

Viola adunca

Type

Species Details

Family: Violaceae
Rarity: Common
Flowering Time: Mid Spring
Life Cycle: Perennial
Height: up to 4 inches
Habitat: Meadow, Coastal, Subalpine, Moist Riverbanks
Native: Yes

Additional Information

This blue beauty has extra ecological significance in that it is a host plant to some of the Pacific Northwest endangered butterfly larvae. Adunca means "hooked." and the flower is also known as the ‘hooked-spur violet’.

Rarity: Common
Flowering Time: Mid Spring
Life Cycle: Perennial
Height: up to 4 inches
Habitat: Meadow, Coastal, Subalpine, Moist Riverbanks
Native: Yes

Sources: Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest, Oregon Flora Project

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