Yellow Violet
Scientific Name:Viola pubescens
Common Name Synonyms:Downy Yellow Violet


NOTES: Seeds have fatty appendages (elaiosomes) which attract ants that disperse seeds. Violets grow on all continents and are the larval host plant for Great Spangled Fritillary butterflies.

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Yellow Violet
Genus species: Viola pubescens
Common Names: Yellow Violet
Downy Yellow Violet
Family Name: Violaceae  
Annual or perennial herbs; leaves alternate, simple, entire to lobed, stipules conspicuous and often lobed or fringed; flowers bisexual, irregular, solitary; fruit a capsule.
Seed Type: Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Native
Category:Wildflower
Flower Color:Yellow
Identified by:A. Swanson
Months in Bloom:  
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