| Family | VIOLACEAE |
| Genus species | Viola altaica Ker Gawl. sect. Melanium |
| Bibliography | Bot. Reg. 1: t. 54 (1815) |
| Native Range | Siberia to Central Asia and Xinjiang |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine |
| Habitat | rocky slopes |
| Altitude | 1500-4000m |
| Description | leaves broadly ovate to elliptic, 2-5cm dlouhé, shallowly crenate, glabrous, stipules large, deeply dentate or lobate, flowers to 4cm across |
| Size | 5-10cm |
| Color | bluish purple, yellow |
| Bloom | spring, summer |
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| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained soil, shading in summer |
| Propagation | seed in winter, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 13-16°C division after flowering and in fall |
| Synonyms | Mnemion grandiflorum Spach Viola monochroa Klokov Viola pallasii Fisch. ex Steud. Viola speciosa Schrad. ex Rchb. |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West Siberia) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, KGZ Kirgizistan, TZK Tadzhikistan) 36 China (CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia |
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