| Family | VIOLACEAE |
| Genus species | Viola biflora L. sect. Dischidium |
| Synonyms | Viola chingiana W.Becker |
| Viola lutea Lam. | |
| Viola tayemonii Hayata | |
| Habitat | thickets and woods |
| Altitude | 0-4500m |
| Description | thin trailing stems, leaves in rosette, pale green, reniform or cordate, stipules small, oval, subdentate, flowers 15mm across, sepals lanceolate, petals obovate-oblong |
| Size | 5-10cm |
| Color | yellow |
| Bloom | spring, summer |
| Ca | + |
| Type | tuft |
| Cultivation | cold, shady site with a humous, moist soil alpine house, moist, humous 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 ) Middle Europe (Austria , Czechoslovakia , Germany , Hungary , Poland , Switzerland ) Southwestern Europe (Corse , France , Spain ) Southeastern Europe (Bulgaria , Italy , Romania , Yugoslavia ) Eastern Europe (East European Russia , North European Russia , Ukraine ) Asia-Temperate Siberia (Altay , Buryatiya , Chita , Irkutsk , Krasnoyarsk , Tuva , West Siberia , Yakutskiya ) Russian Far East (Amur , Kamchatka , Khabarovsk , Kuril Is. , Magadan , Primorye , Sakhalin ) Middle Asia (Kazakhstan , Kirgizistan ) China (China North-Central ) Eastern Asia (Japan , Korea , Taiwan ) Asia-Tropical Indian Subcontinent (Nepal , West Himalaya ) Indo-China (Myanmar ) Northern America Subarctic America (Alaska , Yukon ) Northwestern U.S.A. (Colorado) |
| Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
| Comments | VIOLACEAE
iflora carlottae Calder & Roy L.Taylor, Canad. J. Bot. 43: 1395 (1965)
biflora rockiana (W.Becker) Y.S.Chen, Fl. China 13: 108 (2007)
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