Viola primulifolia subsp. occidentalis

Western white bog violet, Western White Bog Violet

Family: Violaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.2

Western white bog violet is a rare (CNPS 1B.2) California native perennial found in northwestern Klamath Ranges near Gasquet in Del Norte County, inhabiting marshes and bogs at elevations of 100 to 500 meters. Flowering from April to September, this plant produces white flowers with purple-veined lower petals and delicate, bearded lateral petals. Growing to 20 centimeters tall from thin rhizomes that spread by summer stolons, it develops prostrate to ascending leaves. Its simple basal leaves are lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 1.5 to 7 centimeters long with crenate or serrate edges, typically tapering at the base with an acute or rounded tip. The fruit is an elliptic capsule 5 to 8 millimeters long, containing small beige to bronze seeds.

Habitat: Marshes, bogs often with

Bloom period: Apr-Sep

Elevation: 100-500 m

Bioregions: nw KR (near Gasquet, Del Norte Co.)

California counties: Del Norte

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