Family | VIOLACEAE |
Genus species | Viola irinae Zolot. |
Bibliography | Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 21: 230 (1984) |
Native Range | sw. Siberia |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | grassland and thickets |
Description | leaves petiolate, narrowly cordate-triangular, 7-25mm, serrate, glabrous or pubescent, flowers 16-22mm, calyx lobes broadly lanceolate, acute, spur thick, 6-10mm long, curvate |
Size | 5-10cm |
Color | purplish violet |
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 |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, WSB West Siberia) |