Viola pedunculataTorr. & A.Gray

California Golden Violet

WFO wfo-0001144673 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Viola pedunculata, photographed by Henrik Kibak
fig. a Henrik Kibak, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-05 / obs. 195816916
Viola pedunculata, photographed by Henrik Kibak
fig. b Henrik Kibak, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196450152
Viola pedunculata, photographed by James M. Maley
fig. c James M. Maley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190559724
Viola pedunculata, photographed by joergmlpts
fig. d joergmlpts, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188417027
Viola pedunculata, photographed by Arvel Hernandez
fig. e Arvel Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193771980
Viola pedunculata, photographed by Trevor Harding
fig. f Trevor Harding, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190426246
Viola pedunculata, photographed by Jonathan Curley
fig. g Jonathan Curley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186578569
Viola pedunculata, photographed by joergmlpts
fig. h joergmlpts, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186447901

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Flowering n = 2,741 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 2,741 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 3 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.

  • Viola pedunculata subsp. pedunculata
  • Viola pedunculata subsp. tenuifolia M.S.Baker & J.C.Clausen
  • Viola pedunculata var. tenuifolia (M.S.Baker & J.C.Clausen) J.T.Howell

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.