Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Viola eminens
Common name
A violet
Family
Violaceae
Where found
Moist forest, gullies, and alpine bogs. Tablelands east of Goulburn. Ranges and eastern edge of the tablelands. Not common.
Notes
Perennial herb, stoloniferous. Flower stalks to 0.25 m high, longer than the leaves. Hairless to sparsely hairy. Leaves usually forming rosettes, 1–2.5 cm long, 12–60 mm wide, broadly kidney-shaped, wider than long, bright green, hairless or with scattered hairs, margins with prominent teeth. Flowers with 5 petals, 2-coloured, mauve-violet near base and white near the top (rarely the top part pale violet) with a sharp demarcation between colours, the bottom petal with a large green V shaped blotch at the base, lateral petals strongly twisted. Petals 8–13 mm long. Flowers single. Flowers mostly Dec.–Mar.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Viola~eminens (accessed 11 February, 2021)
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