Viola suavisM.Bieb.

WFO wfo-0000424847 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Viola suavis, photographed by Гущина Ангелина Викторовна
fig. a Гущина Ангелина Викторовна, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-29 / obs. 202419249
Viola suavis, photographed by Гущина Ангелина Викторовна
fig. b Гущина Ангелина Викторовна, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185820401
Viola suavis, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. c Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185692352
Viola suavis, photographed by pavlaki1968
fig. d pavlaki1968, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183570024
Viola suavis, photographed by Гущина Ангелина Викторовна
fig. e Гущина Ангелина Викторовна, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180891533
Viola suavis, photographed by viridian
fig. f viridian, CC0 1.0 / obs. 114358575
Viola suavis, photographed by Nikita Gerasin
fig. g Nikita Gerasin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 80655447
Viola suavis, photographed by Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky)
fig. h Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 64021646

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Native range 31 botanical countries

Regions where Viola suavis is native: Morocco, East Aegean Is., Iran, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, Albania, Austria, Baleares, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, South European Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine MoroccoEast Aegean Is.IranKazakhstanKirgizstanLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusTadzhikistanTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanUzbekistanWest HimalayaAlbaniaAustriaBulgariaCentral European RussiaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGreeceHungaryItalyKrymNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaSouth European RussiaSpainSwitzerlandUkraine Baleares
Native distribution of Viola suavis, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baleares BAL
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Tadzhikistan TZK
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Uzbekistan UZB
Morocco MOR AFRICA
West Himalaya WHM ASIA-TROPICAL

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.

Flowering 281 in flower of 289 examined

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Viola suavis observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 281 of 289 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,089 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -9.7 °C -4.5 °C 0.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.1 °C 25.7 °C 28.6 °C
Annual rainfall 495 mm 604 mm 1,210 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 78 mm 110 mm 179 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,089 research-grade observations of Viola suavis that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 11 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 barceloi Nyman
  • Viola donetzkiensis Klokov
  • Viola pontica W.Becker
  • Viola reverchonii Willk.
  • Viola segobricensis Pau.
  • Viola sepincola Jord.
  • Viola suavis var. barceloi O.Bolòs & Vigo
  • Viola suavis var. segobricensis (Pau) O.Bolòs & Vigo
  • Viola suavis var. sepincola (Jord.) O.Bolòs & Vigo
  • Viola tolosana Timb.-Lagr.
  • Viola torresii Marcet

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.