Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Early Dog-violet, Viola reichenbachiana, Sailchuach luath
Photographs: Muckross, Co. Kerry

Early Dog-violet
Viola reichenbachiana
Sailchuach luath
Family: Violaceae

Flowering time: March-May. Perennial. Native.

Blue-violet flowers with a straight dark spur, narrow upper petals and un-branched dark purple veins on the lower petals. Leaves and stipules are narrower than those of Common Dog-violet. Height 4-20 cm.

Shady calcareous ground in dry deciduous woods and on hedge banks

Similar: Common Dog-violet, Viola riviniana has a notched, pale spur and branched veins on lower petals

Early Dog-violet, Viola reichenbachiana, Sailchuach luath

Early Dog-violet, Viola reichenbachiana, Sailchuach luath
Early Dog-violet, Viola reichenbachiana, Sailchuach luath

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