Plant	Leaf
Flower	Fruit

Height: 5-15cm
Occasionally Arbuscular Mycorrhizal
Perennial, Rhizomatous, Lacks Persistent Seed Bank
Hermaphrodite, Flowering April - June (Earliest: 9.4)

Biotopes:	Peat Bogs and Mires	Wet Meadows	Spruce Forest Edge
Flower Visitors:	Anthocharis cardamines	Araschnia levana
Seed Dispersal:	Projection
Parasites:	Septoria violae-palustris	Galiomyza beckeri
Herbivores:	Several Nymphalidae
Possible Herbivores:	Several Tortricidae	Conistra erythrocephala Larva	Diarsia mendica Larva	Xanthorhoe quadrifasiata Larva
	Ametastegia equiseti Larva	Cylindrotoma distinctissima Larva
Possible Sapivores:	Mecomma ambulans	Philaenus spumarius

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Marsh Violet

Pictures © 2003, 2005, 2006 J.K. Lindsey

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