Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Viola fuscoviolacea
Common name
Dusky violet
Family
Violaceae
Where found
Alpine herbfields and damp sites along streams. Kosciuszko National Park, ACT, tablelands, and ranges.
Notes
Perennial herb, stoloniferous. Flower stalks to 0.025 m high. Hairless. Leaves tufted, mostly 0.5–1.2 cm long, 4–15 mm wide, broadly oval to almost diamond-shaped, margins scalloped to coarsely toothed, bases wedge-shaped and tapering into the stalk. Flowers with 5 petals, blackish-violet, rarely paler. Petals 2–3 mm long. Flowers inconspicuous. Flowers single. Flowers Sep.–Jan.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Viola~fuscoviolacea (accessed 11 February, 2021)
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