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|accepted_name=Viola ocellata
|accepted_authority=Torrey & A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. N. Amer.
|place=1: 142. 1838
|year=1838
}}
|common_names=Western heart's ease or two-eyed or southern two-eyed violet
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Violaceae;Viola;Viola ocellata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Violaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Viola]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Viola ocellata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 117, 129, 131
|treatment_page=page 140
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, caulescent, not stoloniferous, 2–37 cm. <b>Stems</b> 1–3, ascending to erect, ± glabrous or usually puberulent, on caudex from shallow, fleshy rhizome or deep-seated caudex with fleshy roots. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; basal: 1–6; stipules deltate, margins laciniate, apex usually long-acuminate; petiole 3.7–10 cm, puberulent; blade ovate, deltate, or subreniform, 1–6 × 1.2–4 cm, base usually cordate to subcordate, margins crenate, usually ciliate, apex acute, mucronulate, surfaces usually sparsely puberulent, glabrous early; cauline similar to basal except: stipules lanceolate, margins ±fimbriate, sometimes stipitate-glandular, sometimes entire, erose, or ± laciniate; petiole 0.4–9 cm; blade ovate to deltate, 1.6–4.4 × 1.1–3.6 cm, base subcordate to truncate, margins crenate to ± serrate, ciliate, apex acute to obtuse. <b>Peduncles</b> 1–10 cm, puberulent. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals lanceolate, margins ciliate, auricles 0.5–1.5 mm; petals white adaxially, upper 2 and sometimes lower 3 deep reddish violet abaxially, all with yellow area basally, lateral 2 with purple patch basally distal to smaller yellow area, bearded, lowest with yellow patch basally, purple-veined, 5–15 mm, spur yellow or greenish, gibbous, 1–2.5 mm; style head bearded; cleistogamous flowers axillary. <b>Capsules</b> spherical to spherical-ovoid, 5–11 mm, minutely scabrous. <b>Seeds</b> brown-purple, ca. 2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jul.
|habitat=Rocky areas, grassy banks, thickets, often on serpentine soil
|elevation=100–1100 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.
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|references=
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name=Viola ocellata
|author=
|authority=Torrey & A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Violaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jul.
|habitat=Rocky areas, grassy banks, thickets, often on serpentine soil
|elevation=100–1100 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. N. Amer.
|publication year=1838
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Viola
|species=Viola ocellata
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