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§1 Plant

Viola selkirkii Pursh ex Goldie

vernacular Selkirk's violet — species · Violaceae


USDA
VISE2
GBIF
5331202
Rank
species
Selkirk's violet (Viola selkirkii)
Platephotograph · Chris Fastie source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Violaceae Batsch
Genus
Viola
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Native
  • CAN Canada Native
  • GL Greenland Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 128 counties across 13 states/territories
Legend Native · 128 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 128 counties across 13 states/territories.

Alaska view state ↗ 10 N
Colorado view state ↗ 4 N
Maine view state ↗ 8 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 3 N
Michigan view state ↗ 23 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 11 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 4 N
New York view state ↗ 21 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 7 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 1 N
Vermont view state ↗ 12 N
Washington view state ↗ 1 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 23 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/VISE2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5331202 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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