Viola luteaHuds.

WFO wfo-0000424221 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Viola lutea, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. a Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-21 / obs. 199762726
Viola lutea, photographed by Pete Bradshaw
fig. b Pete Bradshaw, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195713900
Viola lutea, photographed by Pete Bradshaw
fig. c Pete Bradshaw, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195714370
Viola lutea, photographed by Pete Bradshaw
fig. d Pete Bradshaw, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195714092
Viola lutea, photographed by Pete Bradshaw
fig. e Pete Bradshaw, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195714029
Viola lutea, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. f Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 146772332
Viola lutea, photographed by Pete Bradshaw
fig. g Pete Bradshaw, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131577458
Viola lutea, photographed by Catherine Faber
fig. h Catherine Faber, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 132212021

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Viola lutea is native: Austria, Belgium, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland AustriaBelgiumCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyIrelandNetherlandsPolandSpainSwitzerland
Native distribution of Viola lutea, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Austria AUT EUROPE
Belgium BGM
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Ireland IRE
Netherlands NET
Poland POL
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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.

  • Mnemion sudeticum (Willd.) Fourr.
  • Viola amoena T.F.Forst.
  • Viola calaminaria (Ging.) Lej.
  • Viola calaminaria subsp. westfalica (W.Ernst) J.Heimans
  • Viola calaminaria var. westfalica W.Ernst
  • Viola guestphalica Nauenb.
  • Viola sudetica Willd.
  • Viola sudetica var. calaminaria Ging.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. 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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