Carried by 1 nurseries
View Availability at NurseryPerennial herb
8 in Tall
Yellow, Brown
Winter, Spring
Viola douglasii is a species of violet known by the common name Douglas' violet, or Douglas' golden violet. It is native to western North America from Oregon through California and into Baja California, where it grows in seasonally moist habitat, often on serpentine soils. This rhizomatous herb produces a cluster of erect stems just a few centimeters in length to about 20 centimeters in maximum height. The leaf blades are deeply dissected into several narrow lobes or compound, made up of leaflets, and borne on long petioles. They are hairless to softly hairy in texture. A solitary flower is borne on a long, upright stem. It has five bright or deep yellow petals with brown veining and brown outer surfaces. The largest lowest petal may be over 2 centimeters in length.
Full Sun
For propagating by seed: No treatment. (Emery and Frey 1971).
1, 2, 3, 7*, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
Butterflies and moths supported
2 confirmed and 17 likely
Venerable Dart|Dusky Cut-Worm
Agrotis venerabilis
Callippe Fritillary
Speyeria callippe
Coronis Fritillary
Speyeria coronis
Egleis Fritillary
Speyeria egleis
Dry places
Foothill Woodland, Northern Oak Woodland, Southern Oak Woodland, Yellow Pine Forest