Viola lobata (pine violet)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Viola lobata, photographed by James Fowler — fig. a James Fowler, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-01 / obs. 204219400

Viola lobata, photographed by Ben Hayden — fig. b Ben Hayden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204381781

Viola lobata, photographed by Trevor Van Loon — fig. c Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199829384

Viola lobata, photographed by Mary K. Hanson — fig. d Mary K. Hanson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191988741

Viola lobata, photographed by Dee Shea Himes — fig. e Dee Shea Himes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191383765

Viola lobata, photographed by Jonathan Curley — fig. f Jonathan Curley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190453094

Viola lobata, photographed by Christine Laney — fig. g Christine Laney, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136872457

Viola lobata, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda — fig. h Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136097126

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Native distribution of Viola lobata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
California	CAL	NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Northwest	MXN
Oregon	ORE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Viola dactylifera Greene
Viola lobata subsp. integrifolia (S.Watson) R.J.Little
Viola lobata subsp. lobata
Viola lobata subsp. psychodes (Greene) Munz
Viola lobata var. lobata
Viola lobata var. psychodes (Greene) J.T.Howell
Viola psychodes Greene
Viola sequoiensis Kellogg

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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