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Smooth Yellow Violet (Viola pensylvanica)

Image ID: 2017/lh4

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Native
Family: Violaceae (Violet)
Height: 0.3 to 1 ft.
Blooms: April to June
Leaf Type: toothed
Bloom Size:  0.75 in. (typical)
Flower Description: Individual flowers, Regular blooms, 5 parts
Location: Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail
Date:  4/18/2017
Notes: Leaves and flowers share a stem.
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Smooth Yellow Violet may be easily confused with:
We started out as wildflowers from the bicycle trails of western Pennsylvania, but we've grown!
Meyer, Joseph E. (1918). The Herbalist and Herb Doctor. Hammond, Ind.: Indiana Herb Gardens. 400 pp.

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