Viola maculataCav.

WFO wfo-0000424160 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Viola maculata, photographed by Nicolás Lavandero
fig. a Nicolás Lavandero, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-03-24 / obs. 118786422
Viola maculata, photographed by Tabaré Barreto
fig. b Tabaré Barreto, CC0 1.0 / obs. 107163441
Viola maculata, photographed by Tabaré Barreto
fig. c Tabaré Barreto, CC0 1.0 / obs. 57184243
Viola maculata, photographed by Paul Prior
fig. d Paul Prior, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29079750
Viola maculata, photographed by Peter L Achuff
fig. e Peter L Achuff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118269779
Viola maculata, photographed by Nicolás Lavandero
fig. f Nicolás Lavandero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118786351
Viola maculata, photographed by Peter L Achuff
fig. g Peter L Achuff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118269261
Viola maculata, photographed by Peter L Achuff
fig. h Peter L Achuff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118270148

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Viola maculata is native: Falkland Is., Argentina South, Chile Central, Chile South Falkland Is.Argentina SouthChile CentralChile South
Native distribution of Viola maculata, 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
Argentina South AGS SOUTHERN AMERICA
Chile Central CLC
Chile South CLS
Falkland Is. FAL ANTARCTICA

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 21 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 buchtieniana W.Becker
  • Viola buchtienii Gand.
  • Viola fimbriata Steud.
  • Viola glandulosa Domb. ex Ging.
  • Viola grandidentata Kalela
  • Viola macloviana Gand.
  • Viola maculata f. buchtieniana Skottsb.
  • Viola maculata f. grandidentata (Kalela) Weibel
  • Viola maculata subsp. microphyllos (Poir.) Weibel
  • Viola maculata var. buchtienii (Gand.) Weibel
  • Viola maculata var. maculata
  • Viola maculata var. megaphylla DC. ex Ging.
  • Viola maculata var. minor Hook. & Arn.
  • Viola maculata var. popetae Sparre
  • Viola maculata var. pubescens Reiche
  • Viola maculata var. tenuifolia Speg.
  • Viola microphyllos Poir.
  • Viola microphyllos f. septentrionalis Kalela
  • Viola pyrolifolia Poir.
  • Viola tetrapetala Molina
  • Viola valdiviana Kalela

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.