Viola pedataL.

bird's foot violet

WFO wfo-0001144672 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Viola pedata, photographed by Ryan Sorrells
fig. a Ryan Sorrells, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205627604
Viola pedata, photographed by Katie Kucera
fig. b Katie Kucera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204120256
Viola pedata, photographed by Liren Varghese
fig. c Liren Varghese, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203719676
Viola pedata, photographed by Matt Pelikan
fig. d Matt Pelikan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198696512
Viola pedata, photographed by Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS
fig. e Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198255494
Viola pedata, photographed by Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS
fig. f Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198254729
Viola pedata, photographed by Matt Pelikan
fig. g Matt Pelikan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198695829
Viola pedata, photographed by Matt Pelikan
fig. h Matt Pelikan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197843481

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Flowering n = 1,878 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 1,878 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 19 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Oionychion pedatum Nieuwl. & Kaczm.
  • Oionychion pedatum var. ampliatum (Greene) Nieuwl. & Kaczm.
  • Oionychion pedatum var. inornatum (Greene) Nieuwl. & Kaczm.
  • Viola ampliata Greene
  • Viola digitata Pursh
  • Viola inornata (Greene) Greene
  • Viola multifida Mill.
  • Viola pedata f. alba (Thurb.) Britton
  • Viola pedata f. bicolor Britton
  • Viola pedata f. pedata
  • Viola pedata f. ranunculifolia (Juss. ex Poir.) Fernald
  • Viola pedata f. rosea A.L.Sanders
  • Viola pedata var. flabellata D.Don & Link
  • Viola pedata var. inornata Greene
  • Viola pedata var. pedata
  • Viola pedata var. velutina Schwein.
  • Viola ranunculifolia Juss. ex Poir.
  • Viola redunca House
  • Viola reidiae Cory

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.