| Family | VIOLACEAE |
| Genus species | Viola selkirkii Pursh ex Goldie sect. Viola |
| Synonyms | Viola borealis Weinm. |
| Viola carnosula W.Becker | |
| Viola salina Turcz. | |
| Habitat | shady rocks and woods |
| Altitude | 200-3000m |
| Description | leaves petiolate, orbiculate-ovate to ovate, 2-4cm, acute, deeply cordate, serrate to crenate, subglabrous, flowers 15-20mm, sepals lanceolate, sparsely hirsute, spur 6-8mm |
| Size | 5-15cm |
| Color | pale violet |
| Bloom | early summer |
| Ca | - |
| Type | tuft |
| Cultivation | shady, humous, rock crevices alpine house, humous, gravelly soil, shade |
| Propagation | seed in winter, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 13-16°C division after flowering and in fall |
| Territory |
Circumpolar
Europe Northern Europe (Finland , Norway , Sweden ) Eastern Europe (Central European Russia , East European Russia , North European Russia , Northwest European Russia ) Asia-Temperate Siberia (Altay , Buryatiya , Chita , Irkutsk , Krasnoyarsk , Tuva , West Siberia ) Russian Far East (Amur , Kamchatka , Khabarovsk , Kuril Is. , Magadan , Primorye , Sakhalin ) Middle Asia (Kazakhstan ) China (Inner Mongolia , Manchuria , China North-Central ) Mongolia Eastern Asia (Japan , Korea ) Northern America Subarctic America (Aleutian Is. , Alaska , Greenland , Yukon ) Western Canada (Alberta , British Columbia , Manitoba , Saskatchewan ) Eastern Canada (Labrador , New Brunswick , Newfoundland , Nova Scotia , Ontario , Québec ) Northwestern U.S.A. (Colorado , Washington ) North-Central U.S.A. (Minnesota , South Dakota , Wisconsin ) Northeastern U.S.A. (Maine , Masachusettes , Michigan , New Hampshire , New York , Pennsylvania , Vermont) |
| Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
| Comments | VIOLACEAE
|