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Habit:<br />

Stem:<br />

Leaves:<br />

Flowers:<br />

Fruits:<br />

Seeds:<br />

Ionidium suffruticosum (L.) Roem. & Sch.<br />

A small perennial herb, 15-30 cm tall.<br />

Common Name : Spade flower<br />

<strong>Family</strong> : Violaceae<br />

With a woody base, numerous diffuse or<br />

ascending branches.<br />

Subsessile, linear to oblanceolate, 4-5 cm long<br />

and 0.2-0.8 cm wide, margins entire or serrate.<br />

Solitary, axillary, red or purple, pedicels 6-12<br />

mm long, erect slender.<br />

Small subglobose capsules, 0.6 cm in diameter.<br />

Ovoid, longitudinally striate, yellowish-white,<br />

1.5 mm long.<br />

<strong>Weed</strong> ID Manual 181

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