Viola hederacea Labill.
Rhizomatous and stoloniferous perennial; stolons arching, glabrous, producing offset plants 80-200 mm from rosette. Lvs all rosulate, hairy above and beneath, 15-30 × 12-25 mm, broadly reniform, obtuse, with 5-9 blunt teeth each side; stipules linear, glandular-fimbriate, 3-6 mm long; petiole 3-6 cm long, with patent hairs. Peduncles erect, glabrous; bracts linear, bluntly glandular-dentate, 5-8 mm long. Fls c. 2 cm diam. Sepals linear-lanceolate, acute, 5-6 mm long; appendages 0.5 mm long. Petals white, mauve at base, exceeding sepals, the lateral bearded, the anterior veined and saccate but not spurred. Style geniculate at base, 2.5 mm long; stigma not beaked. Capsule ovoid, glabrous, 4-6 mm long. Seeds ovoid, brown or black, 1.5-2 mm long.
N.: Northland (Kerikeri), Auckland City.
Australia 1988
Waste land and rough lawn.
FL Nov-Feb.
N.Z. plants have bearded lateral petals, tall peduncles and discolorous corollas, features of subsp. hederacea.
