Viola macloskeyi

Macloskey's violet, small white violet, smooth white violet, Smooth White Violet

Family: Violaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Macloskey's violet is a California native perennial found in northern and central California Floristic Province mountains, San Bernarddo, San Jacinto, Warner, and eastern Sierra Nevada regions in bogs, wet meadows, and streamside habitats at elevations of 600 to 3,600 meters. Flowering from March to September, this plant produces white flowers with purple-veined lower petals and distinctive lateral petals that may be bearded with cylindric hairs. Growing to 10 centimeters tall, it forms dense patches via late-season stolons and emerges from short, fleshy rhizomes with no visible stem. Its simple basal leaves are reniform to ovate, 1 to 6.5 centimeters long, with a heart-shaped base and rounded to acute tips, ranging from nearly entire to shallowly crenate. The fruit is a small 5 to 7 millimeter elliptic capsule containing beige to bronze seeds.

Habitat: Bogs, wet meadows, seeps, lake margins, streamsides, mesic roadside depressions, often with mosses

Bloom period: Mar-Sep

Elevation: 600-3370[3600] m

Bioregions: n&ampc CA-FP (mountains), SnBr, SnJt, Wrn, SNE

California counties: Fresno, Tulare, San Bernardino, Modoc, Calaveras, Siskiyou, Los Angeles, Tuolumne, Humboldt, Mariposa, Placer, Plumas, Madera, Trinity, Nevada, Mono, Riverside, Inyo, Kern, Amador, Butte, Shasta, Sierra, Ventura, Glenn, El Dorado, Lassen, Tehama, Mendocino, Alpine, Colusa, Lake, Del Norte

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.