Small white flowered violet, with soft pubesence on scapes, petioles and undersides of leaves. Top of leaves hairless. Scapes to 7 cm tall, leaves to 9 cm tall. All stems from a single rootstalk, no leafy stems. Flowers are lightly bearded on side petals, lower petal no hairs. We measured the flowers to be 10 - 13 mm in diameter, the spur petal 1 cm long. Spur is blunt and short 4 mm long, 2 mm across.
Leaves are toothed and orbicular to cordate, apex usually pointed. Leaves can grow rather large for such a small plant, to 4 cm long, 3.5 cm wide.
Taxonomic key to Saskatchewan's violets.
Habitat is moist woodlands. An eastern species, this plant is very rare in Saskatchewan, listed as an S1 by the Saskatchewan Conservation Data Centre.
Above photos taken June 4th, Porcupine Hills, about 400 km north east of our home in Regina, SK.