| Family | VIOLACEAE |
| Genus species | Viola collina Besser sect. Viola |
| Bibliography | Cat. Hort. Cremenci: 151 (1816) |
| Native Range | Temp. Eurasia |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | grassland and thickets |
| Description | leaves petiolate, ovate to orbiculate-cordate, 2-4cm long, shallowly serrate, pubescent, flowers 10-15mm across, sepals narrowly ovate, obtuse, pubescent, spur 3-4mm long |
| Size | 5-10cm |
| Color | pale purple |
| 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 atrichocarpa Borbás Viola centrorum H.Perrier ex W.Becker Viola collina var. glabricarpa K.Sun Viola collina var. intramongolica Ching J..Wang Viola collina ssp. propera (Jord.) Nyman Viola crassicalcarata Ching J.Wang Viola gymnocarpa Janka Viola hirta var. alpina Ging. Viola hirta ssp. collina (Besser) Rouy & Foucaud Viola hirta var. collina (Besser) Regel Viola microceras Schur Viola microdonta C.C.Chang Viola obscura Schur Viola odorata ssp. collina (Besser) Bonnier Viola opizii Knaf ex Nyman Viola propera Jord. Viola valesiaca Hausskn. ex Favrat |
| Territory | 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (FIN Finland, NOR Norway, SWE Sweden) 11 Middle Europe (AUT Austria, BGM Belgium, CZE Czechoslovakia, GER Germany, HUN Hungary, POL Poland, SWI Switzerland) 12 Southwestern Europe (FRA France, SPA Spain) 13 Southeastern Europe (ITA Italy, ROM Romania, YUG Yugoslavia) 14 Eastern Europe (BLR Belarus, BLT Baltic States, RUC Central European Russia, RUE East European Russia, RUN North European Russia, RUS South European Russia, RUW Northwest European Russia, UKR Ukraine) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, WSB West Siberia) 31 Russian Far East (AMU Amur, KHA Khabarovsk, KUR Kuril Is., PRM Primorye, SAK Sakhalin) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, KGZ Kirgizistan, TZK Tadzhikistan, UZB Uzbekistan) 36 China (CHC China South-Central, CHI Inner Mongolia, CHM Manchuria, CHN China North-Central, CHS China Southeast) 37 Mongolia 38 Eastern Asia (KOR Korea) |