Bird’s foot or bird-foot violet, violette pédalée Bird’s foot or bird-foot violet, violette pédalée

Viola ampliata Greene; V. digitata Pursh; V. pedata var. atropurpurea Gingins; V. pedata var. inornata Greene; V. pedata var. lineariloba Gingins; V. redunca House

Leaf blades reniform or ovate to elliptic, 7–9-lobed, lobes spatulate, lanceolate, or ± linear, sometimes with narrowly deltate to falcate appendages toward apex, base broadly cordate to cuneate, apex acute, mucronulate.

Flowering Mar–Jun. Sandy, open woods, fields, and rights-of-way; 0–2000 m; Ont.; Ala., Ark., Conn., Del., D.C., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kans., Ky., La., Md., Mass., Mich., Minn., Miss., Mo., Nebr., N.H., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Pa., R.I., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Va., W.Va., Wis.

The orange tips of the stamens of var. pedata are exerted.