Viola odorata L.

VIOLACEAE

- Violet family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Viola odorata L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 934 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Sweet violet

English name: common violet

English name: English violet

French name: violette odorante

Italian name: Viola mammola

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

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TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Dilleniidae
Order: Violales
Family: Violaceae
Genus: Viola
Species:

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Viola odorata
Credit: Photo by Brunello Pierini

Viola odorata
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Viola odorata
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 558.

Viola odorata
Credit: Photo by L.R.

Viola odorata
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Roseto di San Giovanni, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Viola odorata
Credit: Photo by Carlo Cibei

Viola odorata
Credit: Photo by Pierfranco Arrigoni - Valmadrera (LC)

Viola odorata
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Firenze, Giardino dei Semplici., FI, Toscana, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Viola odorata
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Picture modified from Gilg, Ernst; Schumann, Karl - Das Pflanzenreich Hausschatz des Wissens (1900) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Viola odorata
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di San Floriano del Collio., GO, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Viola odorata
Credit: Photo by L.R.

Viola odorata
Picture modified from Bley, Franz - Botanisches Bilderbuch (1897/98) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Viola odorata
Jose Hernandez - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Viola odorata
Credit: Photo by L.R.

Viola odorata
Credit: Photo by Daniela Longo

Viola odorata
Credit: Photo by Carlo Cibei

Viola odorata
Credit: Photo by Pierfranco Arrigoni - Valmadrera (LC)

Viola odorata
Credit: Photo by Brunello Pierini

Viola odorata
Credit: Photo by Pierfranco Arrigoni - Valmadrera (LC)

Viola odorata
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Viola odorata
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Comprensorio di San Giovanni, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Viola odorata
Credit: Photo by Carlo Cibei

Viola odorata
Credit: Photo by Franco Fenaroli

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AZ, CA, CO, CT, GA, HI, ID, IL, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MT, NC, NJ, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, TN, UT, VA, WA, WI), USA+ (Puerto Rico), CAN (BC, NF, NS, ON)

Distributional map for Viola odorata L.
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(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Viola pallens (Banks ex Ging) Brainerd [168]
2) Viola palmata L. var. dilatata Elliot [75]
3) Viola palustris L. [753]
4) Viola palustris L. var. palustris [257]
5) Viola pedata L. [282]
6) Viola pedunculata Torr. & A. Gray ssp. pedunculata [264]
7) Viola pinetorum Greene ssp. pinetorum [291]
8) Viola praemorsa Douglas ex Lindl. var. altior Blank. [128]
9) Viola purpurea Kellogg ssp. atriplicifolia (Greene) M.S. Baker & J.C. Clausen ex M. Peck [55]
10) Viola purpurea Kellogg ssp. venosa (S. Watson) M.S. Baker & J.C. Clausen [346]

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