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Viola selkirkii, Pursh. A very distinct small species with pale violet beardless petals, the spur long and much enlarged toward the rounded end: glabrous except for minute spreading hairs on the upper surface of the lf .-blades: lvs. thin, ovate to nearly orbicular, deeply cordate with a narrow sinus, crenate: sepals lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, usually acute; cleistogamous fls. erect or ascending. Shaded ravines and cold mountain forests, New Bruns. to Brit. Col., south in the Alleghanies to Pa. and in the Rocky Mts. to Colo., and north to Greenland; also in N. Eu.
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