| Family | VIOLACEAE |
| Genus species | Viola yazawana Makino |
| Bibliography | Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 16: 158 (1902) |
| Native Range | Japan (Honshu) |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | thickets and woods |
| Description | leaves petiolate, broadly ovate-cordate, 1-4cm, acuminate, deeply cordate, remotely serrate, pubescent, flowers purple striate, 15mm across, sepals lanceolate, spur 2-3mm long |
| Size | 5-10cm |
| Color | white |
| Bloom | spring |
| Ca | |
| Type | perennial |
| 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 | 3 Asia-Temperate 38 Eastern Asia (JAP Japan) |