List of Viola species

This is a list of species in the plant genus Viola, often known as violets or pansies.

Viola is the largest genus in the family Violaceae, containing between 525 and 600 species.[1][2]

(Note: Neither Saintpaulia ("African violets") nor Erythronium dens-canis ("dogtooth violet") are related to the true violets.)

Viola tricolor
Viola cornuta
Viola arborescens
Viola ocellata
Viola guestphalica
Viola orientalis
Viola labradorica

Species include:[3]

  • Viola acuminata - acuminate violet
  • Viola adunca - hookedspur violet, western dog violet
  • Viola aetolica
  • Viola affinis - sand violet
  • Viola alba - white violet
  • Viola albanica
  • Viola allchariensis
  • Viola alpina
  • Viola altaica
  • Viola appalachiensis - Appalachian violet
  • Viola arborescens
  • Viola arsenica
  • Viola arvensis - field pansy, European field pansy
  • Viola aurea - golden violet
  • Viola bakeri - Baker's violet
  • Viola banksii - Banks' violet
  • Viola beckwithii - Beckwith's violet, Great Basin violet
  • Viola bertolonii
  • Viola betonicifolia - showy violet, mountain violet
  • Viola bicolor - field pansy
  • Viola biflora - yellow wood violet, twoflower violet, arctic yellow violet
  • Viola blanda - sweet white violet, Willdenow's violet
  • Viola brevistipulata - short stipule violet
  • Viola brittoniana - northern coastal violet, coast violet
  • Viola calaminaria - yellow calamine violet
  • Viola calcarata
  • Viola californica - California violet
  • Viola canadensis - Canadian white violet, Canada violet
  • Viola canina - dog violet, European heath dog violet
  • Viola cazorlensis
  • Viola cenisia
  • Viola chaerophylloides
  • Viola chamissoniana - olopu
  • Viola changii[4]
  • Viola charlestonensis - Charleston mountain violet
  • Viola cheiranthifolia - Teide violet
  • Viola chinensis - China violet
  • Viola collina - hill violet
  • Viola comollia
  • Viola cornuta - horned pansy, horned violet, Johnny-jump-up, bedding pansy
  • Viola corsica
  • Viola crassa
  • Viola cryana - cry violet
  • Viola cucullata - marsh blue violet
  • Viola cuicochensis
  • Viola cuneata - wedgeleaf violet
  • Viola cunninghamii
  • Viola curtisii
  • Viola declinata
  • Viola delphinantha
  • Viola diffusa - spreading violet
  • Viola dissecta
  • Viola douglasii - Douglas' golden violet
  • Viola dubyana
  • Viola dukadjinica
  • Viola egglestonii - glade violet
  • Viola elatior
  • Viola elegantula
  • Viola epipsila - dwarf marsh violet, large marsh violet
  • Viola eugeniae
  • Viola fimbriatula - fringed violet
  • Viola flettii - Olympic violet, rock violet
  • Viola frank-smithii - Frank-Smith's violet
  • Viola glabella - pioneer violet, stream violet
  • Viola gracilis
  • Viola grisebachiana
  • Viola grypoceras
  • Viola guadalupensis - Guadalupe violet
  • Viola guangzhouensis[5]
  • Viola guestphalica - calamine violet
  • Viola hallii - Oregon violet
  • Viola hastata - halberd-leaf yellow violet
  • Viola hederacea - Australian violet, trailing violet
  • Viola helenae - Wahiawa stream violet
  • Viola hirsutula - southern woodland violet
  • Viola hirta - hairy violet
  • Viola hispida - Rouen pansy
  • Viola howellii - Howell's violet
  • Viola incisa
  • Viola incognita - large-leaved white violet
  • Viola japonica - Japanese violet
  • Viola jinggangshanensis[1]
  • Viola jooi
  • Viola kauaensis - pohe hiwa
  • Viola keiskei
  • Viola kitaibeliana - dwarf pansy
  • Viola kosaninii
  • Viola labradorica - alpine violet, Labrador violet
  • Viola lactea - pale dog violet
  • Viola lanaiensis - Hawaii violet
  • Viola lanceolata - bog white violet
  • Viola langsdorfii - Aleutian violet, Alaska violet
  • Viola libanotica
  • Viola lilliputana - Lilliputian violet
  • Viola lithion - rock violet
  • Viola littoralis
  • Viola lobata - moosehorn violet, yellow wood violet, pine violet
  • Viola lutea - mountain pansy
  • Viola macloskeyi - small white violet, western sweet white violet
  • Viola mandshurica - Fuji dawn
  • Viola maoershanensis[6]
  • Viola maviensis - Hawaii bog violet
  • Viola mirabilis - wonder violet
  • Viola missouriensis - Missouri violet, banded violet
  • Viola montana
  • Viola muliensis[7]
  • Viola munbyana
  • Viola nanlingensis[2]
  • Viola nephrophylla - northern bog violet
  • Viola nitida[6]
  • Viola novae-angliae - New England blue violet
  • Viola nuttallii - Nuttall's violet, yellow prairie violet
  • Viola oahuensis - Oahu violet
  • Viola obliqua - marsh blue violet
  • Viola obtusa - blunt violet
  • Viola ocellata - pinto violet, two-eyed violet
  • Viola odorata - sweet violet
  • Viola orbiculata - darkwoods violet, western round-leaved violet
  • Viola orientalis
  • Viola orphanidis
  • Viola palmata - crowfoot violet, early blue violet, palmate violet
  • Viola palustris - marsh violet, alpine marsh violet
  • Viola patrinii - stemless violet
  • Viola pedata - birdfoot violet, crowfoot violet
  • Viola pedatifida - prairie violet, prairie birdfoot violet
  • Viola pedunculata - California golden violet, grass pansy, yellow pansy
  • Viola persicifolia (syn. V. stagnina) - fen violet
  • Viola pinetorum - goosefoot violet
  • Viola pinnata - pinnate violet
  • Viola praemorsa - canary violet
  • Viola primulifolia - primrose-leaf violet
  • Viola prionantha
  • Viola psychodes - butterfly violet
  • Viola pubescens - downy yellow violet
  • Viola pumila - meadow violet
  • Viola purpurea - goosefoot violet
  • Viola pyrenaica Ramond ex DC.
  • Viola rafinesquii - field pansy
  • Viola reichenbachiana - early dog violet, slender wood violet
  • Viola reichei - Reiche violet, Patagonian yellow violet, Chilean yellow violet
  • Viola renifolia - northern white violet, kidney-leaved white violet
  • Viola riviniana - common dog violet
  • Viola rostrata - longspur violet
  • Viola rotundifolia - eastern roundleaf yellow violet, early yellow violet
  • Viola rupestris - Teesdale violet, rock violet
  • Viola sagittata - arrowleaf violet
  • Viola selkirkii - northern violet, Selkirk's violet
  • Viola sempervirens - evergreen violet, redwood violet
  • Viola septemloba - southern coastal violet
  • Viola septentrionalis - northern woodland violet, northern blue violet
  • Viola sheltonii - Shelton's violet
  • Viola sieberiana
  • Viola sororia - woolly blue violet
  • Viola stojanowii
  • Viola stoloniflora
  • Viola striata - striped violet, striped cream violet, pale violet
  • Viola suavis - Russian violet
  • Viola subsinuata - wavy-leaf violet
  • Viola tokubuchiana
  • Viola tomentosa - feltleaf violet
  • Viola tricolor - wild pansy, heart's-ease, Johnny-jump-up
  • Viola triloba - three-lobed violet
  • Viola trinervata - Rainier violet, sagebrush violet
  • Viola tripartita - threepart violet
  • Viola ucriana
  • Viola uliginosa
  • Viola umbraticola - Ponderosa violet
  • Viola utahensis - Utah violet
  • Viola vaginata - sheathed violet
  • Viola valderia
  • Viola vallicola - valley violet
  • Viola variegata
  • Viola verecunda - hidden violet
  • Viola viarum - twoflower violet, plains violet, wayside violet
  • Viola villosa - Carolina violet, hairy violet, wrinkled violet
  • Viola violacea
  • Viola wailenalenae - Alakai swamp violet
  • Viola walteri - prostrate blue violet, prostrate southern violet
  • Viola yedoensis (syn. Viola philippica var. philippica) - Chinese violet[8]

Hybrids

Known hybrids in genus Viola include:

A Viola × wittrockiana cultivar
  • Viola × bernardii - Bernard's violet
  • Viola × bissellii - Bissell's violet
  • Viola × brauniae - Braun's violet
  • Viola × conjugens
  • Viola × consobrina
  • Viola × consocia
  • Viola × cooperrider
  • Viola × cordifolia
  • Viola × davisii - Davis' violet
  • Viola × eamesii - Eames' violet
  • Viola × eclipes
  • Viola × filicetorum
  • Viola × hollickii - Hollick's violet
  • Viola × insolita
  • Viola × luciae - Lucy's violet
  • Viola × malteana
  • Viola × mistura
  • Viola × modesta
  • Viola × mollicula
  • Viola × mulfordiae - Mulford's violet
  • Viola × notabilis
  • Viola × peckiana - Peck's violet
  • Viola × porteriana - Porter's violet
  • Viola × primulifolia
  • Viola × ravida
  • Viola × redacta
  • Viola × ryoniae - Ryon's violet
  • Viola × slavinii - Slavin's violet
  • Viola × wittrockiana - pansy, garden pansy
  • Viola × wujekii

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ning, Z. L., et al. (2012). Viola jinggangshanensis (Violaceae), a new species from Jiangxi, China. Annales Botanici Fennici 49(5) 383-86.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Zhou, J. S., et al. (2008). Viola nanlingensis (Violaceae), a new species from Guangdong, southern China. Annales Botanici Fennici 45(3) 233-36.
  3. ↑ Viola. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).
  4. ↑ Zhou, J. S. and F. W. Xing. (2007). Viola changii sp. nov.(Violaceae) from Guangdong, southern China. Nordic Journal of Botany 25(5‐6) 303-05.
  5. ↑ Anqiang, D., et al. (2009). A new species of Viola (Violaceae) from Guangdong, China. Novon 19(4) 457-60.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chen, Y. S. and Q. E. Yang. (2009). Two new stoloniferous species of Viola (Violaceae) from China. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 159(2) 349-56.
  7. ↑ Chen, Y. S. and Q. E. Yang. (2005). A new species of Viola L.(Violaceae) from Sichuan, China. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 149(3) 365-68.
  8. ↑ Viola yedoensis. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).