Plant: annual herb; 11-46 cm tall. STEMS erect, leafy with few branches, glabrous to pilose (especially upper half), often purple-mottled Leaves: stipules 1-5 mm long, to 0.5 mm wide, linear, glabrous; petioles 4-7 mm long; blades 1.5-10.5 cm long, 3-23 mm wide, elliptic to lanceolate, coarsely pubescent to glabrous, the tips and bases attenuate, the margins crenate to usually serrate, ciliate; lower leaves opposite, the upper leaves alternate INFLORESCENCE: flowers (1-)2-4 per leaf axil, often with 1-2 aborting, the pedicels 0.2-2 cm long, pubescent, erect to horizontal Flowers: sepals narrow, long acuminate, entire, ciliate, 2-5 mm long, 0.5 mm wide at the base, the lower petals 7-12 mm long, spatulate, the tip 4-7 mm wide above a median constriction, this 1-2 mm wide, the petal base 2-3 mm wide, glabrous to pubescent on upper surface, petal edges and veins purple veins purple; lateral petals 0.5-2 mm long, thin, white or purple- tinged; upper petals ca. 2 mm long, purple tipped. Cleistogamous flowers present on short pedicels Fruit: FRUITS 3-5.5 mm long, ovoid, usually short-beaked, glabrous; SEEDS ca. 6 per capsule, globose to somewhat flattened with angular edges, dark brown to black with white to gray patches; caruncle white to cream-colored, hood-shaped Misc: Shaded areas in canyons, near water; 1200-1850 m (4000-6000 ft); Aug-Oct REFERENCES: Little, R. John. Violaceae. 2001. J. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 33(1).