PLANT: Annuals 2.5 25 cm tall. STEMS: erect, often much branched from the base, glabrous or short strigose on the angles or surface. LEAVES: simple, cauline, alternate, glabrous to sparsely pubescent; stipules 8 22 mm long, palmately lobed, the middle lobe leaf like, oblanceolate to elongate, spatulate, the lower lobes shorter, dissected, the margins usually ciliate; petioles 3 20 mm long; lower blades 4 14 mm long, orbicular to ovate, the margins entire to irregularly notched; upper blades 11 30 mm long, 3 13 mm wide, spatulate to obovate, or broadly elliptic, seldom lanceolate, the margins nearly entire to notched. INFLORESCENCE: axillary, the pedicels to 6.3 cm long. FLOWERS: sepals to 7 mm long, with 1 2 mm long ear like lobes at the base; petals much longer than sepals, bluish white or blue, the lowest petal (including spur) 7 13 mm long; cleistogamous flowers present. FRUITS: 4-7 mm long, glabrous. 2n = 34. NOTES: Woodlands, fields, roadsides: Gila, Pima, Pinal cos.; 1200 1600 m (4000 5200 ft); Mar May; CO, KS, MI, MO, NE, NY, s to GA, NM, OK, SC, TX. Often confused with V. arvensis. REFERENCES: Little, R. John. 2001. Violaceae. J. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 33(1).