Viola praemorsa subsp. linguifolia
Family: Violaceae · Type: perennial · Native
Tongue-leafed yellow violet is a California native perennial found in northwestern California, the Cascade Range, northern and central Sierra Nevada Mountains, and Modoc Plateau in vernally moist slopes, meadows, and forest habitats at elevations of 750 to 2,400 meters. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces yellow flowers with distinctive elliptic basal leaves that are often obliquely shaped and range from 5 to 8.5 centimeters long. Growing with stems 11 to 30 centimeters tall, it forms clumps with both basal and stem leaves. Its leaves vary from nearly entire to irregularly toothed, with basal leaves notably longer than wide and cauline leaves up to 3.5 centimeters wide. The plant produces seeds that range from medium to red-brown in color.
Habitat: Generally in vernally moist soil, slopes, meadows, forest
Bloom period: May-Aug
Elevation: 750-2400 m
Bioregions: NW, CaR, n&c SNH, MP
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