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Two flower colour morphs of bird’s-foot violet are common: the solidly lilac-coloured flowers in today’s photograph and a bi-coloured version, with the upper two petals coloured a dark purple. Bird’s-foot violet is distributed throughout the eastern USA. In Canada, it is known to currently occupy only five sites in southwestern Ontario. Of these five sites, […]

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