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|accepted_name=Viola tomentosa
|accepted_authority=M. S. Baker & J. C. Clausen
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Leafl. W. Bot.
|place=5: 142. 1949
|year=1949
}}
|common_names=Woolly or felt-leaved or feltleaf violet
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Violaceae;Viola;Viola tomentosa
|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 tomentosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 118, 146, 147
|treatment_page=page 160
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, caulescent, not stoloniferous, 7–10 cm. <b>Stems</b> 1–3(–5), prostrate or decumbent to erect, leafy proximally and distally, densely white-tomentose, from usually vertical, subligneous rhizome. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; basal: 1–6; stipules linear to broadly ovate-oblong, margins entire, sometimes with scattered glandular hairs, apex acute to obtuse; petiole 2–6 cm, densely white-tomentose; blade ± oblanceolate to elliptic, 1.5–5 × 1.4–2.1 cm, base attenuate, usually oblique, margins usually entire, rarely crenate distally, ciliate, apex acute to usually obtuse, mucronulate, surfaces densely white-tomentose abaxially, strigose adaxially; cauline similar to basal except: stipules ovate, lanceolate, oblanceolate, or oblong, margins entire or toothed, densely ciliate with white hairs; petiole 1.5–3.5 cm; blade 1.8–4 × 0.6–1.1 cm. <b>Peduncles</b> 1–4 cm, densely white-tomentose. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals lanceolate, margins ciliate-tomentose, auricles 0.5–1 mm; petals deep lemon-yellow adaxially, upper 2 often brownish purple abaxially, lower 3 dark brown- to brownish purple-veined, lateral 2 bearded, lowest 6–11 mm, spur yellow, gibbous, 0.5–1.5 mm; style head bearded; cleistogamous flowers absent. <b>Capsules</b> ± spherical, 4–5 mm, densely white-tomentose. <b>Seeds</b> brown with lighter brown mottling, 2.5–2.8 mm. <b>2n</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Aug.
|habitat=Dry, gravelly places, open ponderosa, Jeffrey, lodgepole pine forests
|elevation=1500–2000 m
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p><i>Viola tomentosa</i> occurs in El Dorado, <i>Nevada</i>, Placer, Plumas, and Sierra counties. M. S. Baker (1949) reported that nearly every leaf axil of <i>V. tomentosa</i> produces a flower bud and that these buds produce chasmogamous flowers late in season instead of cleistogamous flowers, as do other members of the <i>V. nuttallii</i> complex.</p><!--
--><p><i>Viola tomentosa</i> hybridizes with <i>V. purpurea</i>; the hybrids appeared sterile (M. S. Baker 1949). J. Clausen (1964) reported a putative hybrid between <i>V. tomentosa</i> and <i>V. sheltonii</i> from one location in Sierra County.</p>
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name=Viola tomentosa
|authority=M. S. Baker & J. C. Clausen
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Violaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Aug.
|habitat=Dry, gravelly places, open ponderosa, Jeffrey, lodgepole pine forests
|elevation=1500–2000 m
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Leafl. W. Bot.
|publication year=1949
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Viola
|species=Viola tomentosa
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