15 cm ruler for scale
Small, stemless plant with pale violet flowers, lower lip with dark purple veins. Side petals with some bearding. Flowers measured about 1 cm wide, spur 6 mm long, 2 mm wide, spur petal to 14 mm long. Plants are glabrous. Flower scapes grow to about the level of the leaves. Leaves are orbicular to cordate, rounded teeth and a sharp apex. The largest leaves were 3 cm long and 3 cm wide. Plants with numerous runners.
Habitat is bogs and stream banks in the boreal forest.
We measured plants to a height of 11 cm.
Taxonomic key to Saskatchewan's violets.
All though listed as very rare by Budd's Flora, The Saskatchewan Conservation Data Centre does not include it among its list of rare plants, and, The Vascular Plants of Saskatchewan and the Provincially and Nationally Rare native Plants in Saskatchewan lists the plant as common.
Photos taken June 4th, wet area on the edge of black spruce forest, Porcupine Provincial Forest, 400 km north east of our home in Regina, SK.