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Smooth Yellow Violet
Smooth Yellow Violet
Viola eriocarpa
Plantae
COMMON

Stats

Lifespan
Perennial
Size
Small
Diet
Photosynthetic
Biome
Temperate deciduous forest
Range
Eastern North America
Movement
Sessile
Breeding
Seeds
Defense
Toxins
Status
Common

About

A woodland wildflower with smooth, glabrous heart-shaped leaves and bright yellow blooms whose lower petal is etched with fine purple-brown veins to guide pollinators. It flowers in early spring on shaded forest floors, its hairless stems distinguishing it from the closely related downy yellow violet.

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    seed
    A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
  2. 2.
    sprout
    A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
  3. 3.
    sapling
    A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
  4. 4.
    mature
    Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Malpighiales
Family
Violaceae
Genus
Viola
Species
Viola eriocarpa