PLANT: Annuals 5‑42 cm tall. STEMS: prostrate to erect, much branched from base, glabrous to short strigose. LEAVES: simple, cauline, alternate, glabrous to pubescent; stipules 20‑39 mm long, palmately lobed, the middle lobe leaf‑like, oblanceolate to obovate, lanceolate, the lower lobes shorter, dissected, the margins ciliate; petioles 10‑20 mm long; lower blades 25‑36 mm long, orbicular to lanceolate, the margins crenate to subserrate; upper blades 15‑44 mm long, 3‑16 mm wide, narrowly lanceolate to ovate, the margins coarsely to regularly crenate-serrate. INFLORESCENCE: axillary, the pedicels to 8.5 cm long. FLOWERS: sepals to 15 mm long, with 2‑4 mm long ear‑like lobes at base; petals as long as, or usually shorter than sepals, mainly cream or tinged blue‑violet on the upper 4 petals, the lowest petal (including spur) 7‑15 mm long. FRUITS: 5‑9 mm long, glabrous. 2n = 34. NOTES: A weedy plant of waste areas and roadsides: Pima co. expected in others; 750 m (2400 ft); Mar‑Jun; native of Eur.; widespread in N. Amer. Cleistogamous flowers absent. Confused with V. rafinesquii; seldom collected. REFERENCES: Little, R. John. Violaceae. 2001. J. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 33(1).