Family: Violaceae
Angiosperms: Eudicots: Rosids: Order - Malpighiales
The Violets and Pansies. All British species are in genus: Viola.
Leaves alternate; flowers solitary, irregular; 5 sepals with backward directed lobes; 5 petals, the lower with a backward directed spur; fruit a 3-valved capsule.
Violets have slightly toothed, entire, stipules; pansies have deeply lobed, leaf-like stipules
(Stipule = leafy outgrowth from base of petiole; Petiole = stalk of a leaf)
The Violets and Pansies. All British species are in genus: Viola.
Leaves alternate; flowers solitary, irregular; 5 sepals with backward directed lobes; 5 petals, the lower with a backward directed spur; fruit a 3-valved capsule.
Violets have slightly toothed, entire, stipules; pansies have deeply lobed, leaf-like stipules
(Stipule = leafy outgrowth from base of petiole; Petiole = stalk of a leaf)
Marsh Violet (Viola palustris)
The only British species with leaves rounded at tip.
The only British species with leaves rounded at tip.