| Family | VIOLACEAE |
| Genus species | Viola patrinii Ging. sect. Viola |
| Bibliography | Prodr. [A.P. de Candolle] 1: 293 (1824) |
| Native Range | Siberia to n. China and Korea, Japan |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | grassland and thickets |
| Altitude | 200-2500m |
| Description | variable, leaves triangular-ovate, oblong or linear, crenate or serrate, petiolate, stipules linear, connate, flowers 15-20mm across, sepals lanceolate |
| Size | 4-9cm |
| Color | lilac |
| Bloom | spring |
| Ca | |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | mesic, slightly humous, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, rich, drained soil, semi-shade |
| Propagation | seed in winter, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 13-16°C division after flowering and in fall |
| Synonyms | Viola averyi Kellogg Viola betonicifolia Bojer ex Baker Viola chinensis G.Don Viola grandiflora Wall. Viola mandshurica var. patrinii (Ging.) Y.N.Lee Viola mysurensis B.Heyne ex Wall. Viola nepaulensis DC. ex D.Don Viola patrini var. angustifolia Regel Viola patrinii f. angustifolia (Regel) F.Maek. Viola patrinii f. glabra (Nakai) F.Maek. Viola patrinii f. hispida W.Becker Viola patrinii f. prunellifolia (Nakai) F.Maek. Viola patrinii var. subsagittata Maxim. Viola patrinii f. subsagittata (Maxim.) Regel Viola patrinii f. toyokoroensis Koji Ito Viola phalacrocarpa var. glaberrima W.Becker Viola phalacrocarpa f. glaberrima (W.Becker) F.Maek. Viola primulifolia Lour. Viola primulifolia var. angustifolia (Regel) Nakai Viola primulifolia var. glabra Nakai Viola primulifolia var. prunellifolia Nakai Viola roxburghiana Voigt |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (AMU Amur, KHA Khabarovsk, KUR Kuril Is., PRM Primorye, SAK Sakhalin) 36 China (CHI Inner Mongolia, CHM Manchuria) 37 Mongolia 38 Eastern Asia (JAP Japan, KOR Korea) |