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Viola riviniana
Flowering: March-May, sometimes again August-October. Perennial. Native. Scentless violet-blue flowers with branched purple veins on lower petals. Spur is notched, pale violet or whitish. Flowers on leafy shoots rising from central leaf-rosette. Leaves long-stalked, cordate (heart-shaped) with toothed stipules. Fruit 3-angled, 3-seeded. Frequently hybridises with other violet species. Viola riviniana var.nemorosa has a dark-violet spur.
Common on all soils, woods, banks, grassland, roadsides
Aran Islands. Ireland
Spotted on May 7, 2008
Submitted on Dec 31, 2010
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