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Viola canina

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Details
Ethnobotanical Use
General Uses
Synonyms
Common Names
Subtypes (subspecies, varieties, subvarieties, forms)
Germination/Propagation
Distribution
Links to other databases
Genome
Scientific Literature
Phytochemical Profile
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Details Top

Internal ID UUID643ffb7b0b6f8832246795
Scientific name Viola canina
Authority L.
First published in Sp. Pl. : 935 (1753)

Ethnobotanical Use Top

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Synonyms Top

Scientific name Authority First published in
Viola neglecta F.W.Schmidt Fl. Boëm. 3: 55 (1794)
Viola schmidtiana Schult. Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis 5: 363 (1819)
Viola ramosa Gaterau Desc. Pl. Montauban : 154 (1789)
Viola pseudocanina Schur Verh. Naturf. Vereins Brünn 15(2): 113 (1877)
Viola radicans DC. ex Ging. Prodr. 1: 297 (1824)
Viola flavicornis Sm. Engl. Fl. 1: 304 (1824)
Viola filipes Greene Pittonia 4: 289 (1901)
Viola ericetorum Schrad. ex Link Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 1: 240 (1821)
Viola leucoceras Borbás ex Murr Oesterr. Bot. Z. 40: 134 (1890)
Viola lucorum Lange Prodr. Fl. Hispan. 3: 698 (1878)
Viola intermedia Krock. Fl. Siles. , Suppl. 1: 289 (1823)
Viola albertina Greene Pittonia 4: 288 (1901)
Viola cetia Beck ex Borbás Oesterr. Bot. Z. 42: 287 (1892)
Viola apetala F.W.Schmidt Neuere Abh. Königl. Böhm. Ges. Wiss. 1: 61 (1791)
Viola canina var. caulescens Tosco ex G.Ariello & Bellia Rea 8: 24 (1977)

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Language Common/alternative name
English dog violet
English heath dog-violet
English heath violet
Arabic بنفسج كلابي
Belarusian Фіялка сабачая
Bulgarian кучешка теменуга
Czech violka psí
Czech violka ruppova
Welsh fioled y cŵn
Danish hunde-viol
German gewöhnliches hundsveilchen
German hunds-veilchen
German hundsveilchen
German roßveilchen
German schultz' hunds-veilchen
Estonian koerkannike
Persian بنفشه خاردار
Finnish aho-orvokki
French violette des chiens
Croatian pasja ljubica
Icelandic týsfjóla
Japanese ドッグバイオレット
Cornish melion an ki
Lithuanian Šuninė našlaitė
Norwegian Bokmål engfiol
Dutch hondsviooltje
Polish fiołek psi
Russian Фиалька собачья
Russian Фиалка собачья
se beatnatviola
Samogitian Šonpėjuolkė
Slovak fialka psia
Slovenian pasja vijolica
Serbian Шумска љубичица
Swedish Ängsviol
Swedish hundviol
Ukrainian фіалка собача

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Viola canina subsp. montana (L.) Hartm. Bot. Not. 1841: 82 1841
Viola canina subsp. schultzii (Billot) Kirschl. Fl. Alsace 1: 81 (1850)

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Distribution (via POWO/KEW) Top

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  • Asia-temperate
    • Caucasus
      • North Caucasus
      • Transcaucasus
    • Middle Asia
      • Kazakhstan
    • Siberia
      • Altay
      • Buryatiya
      • Chita
      • Irkutsk
      • Krasnoyarsk
      • West Siberia
      • Yakutskiya
  • Europe
    • Eastern Europe
      • Baltic States
      • Belarus
      • Central European Russia
      • East European Russia
      • Krym
      • North European Russia
      • Northwest European Russia
      • South European Russia
      • Ukraine
    • Middle Europe
      • Austria
      • Belgium
      • Czechoslovakia
      • Germany
      • Hungary
      • Netherlands
      • Poland
      • Switzerland
    • Northern Europe
      • Denmark
      • Finland
      • Føroyar
      • Great Britain
      • Iceland
      • Ireland
      • Norway
      • Sweden
    • Southeastern Europe
      • Albania
      • Bulgaria
      • Greece
      • Italy
      • Romania
      • Turkey-in-Europe
      • Yugoslavia
    • Southwestern Europe
      • Corse
      • France
      • Portugal
      • Sardegna
      • Spain

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000426538
Canadensys 9485
USDA Plants VICA22
Tropicos 33800059
INPN 129529
Flora of Italy 11874
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:294863-2
The Plant List kew-2463879
Open Tree Of Life 162701
Observations.org 2809
NCBI Taxonomy 502511
NBN Atlas NBNSYS0000002934
IPNI 294863-2
iNaturalist 124359
iNaturalist 447919
GBIF 5331258
Freebase /m/02_l_3
EPPO VIOCA
EOL 590864
Elurikkus 8202
USDA GRIN 430183
Wikipedia Viola_canina

Genomes (via NCBI) Top

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Scientific Literature Top

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Title Authors Publication Released IDs
Are sub‐alpine species' seedling emergence and establishment in the alpine limited by climate or biotic interactions? Dahle IJ, Gya R, Töpper JP, Vandvik V Ecol Evol 13-Feb-2024
PMCID:PMC10862170
doi:10.1002/ece3.11009
PMID:38352204
The most polyphagous insect herbivore? Host plant associations of the Meadow spittlebug, Philaenus spumarius (L.) Thompson V, Harkin C, Stewart AJ PLoS One 04-Oct-2023
PMCID:PMC10602594
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0291734
PMID:37792900
Edge Effects in the Distribution of Coleoptera in the Forests of the Center of the European Part of Russia Ruchin AB, Egorov LV, Khapugin AA Insects 10-Apr-2023
PMCID:PMC10144564
doi:10.3390/insects14040371
PMID:37103186
Edible Flowers Used in Some Countries of the Mediterranean Basin: An Ethnobotanical Overview Motti R, Paura B, Cozzolino A, de Falco B Plants (Basel) 28-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC9736219
doi:10.3390/plants11233272
PMID:36501312
Experimental climate change impacts on Baltic coastal wetland plant communities Bergamo TF, Ward RD, Joyce CB, Villoslada M, Sepp K Sci Rep 27-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC9701761
doi:10.1038/s41598-022-24913-z
PMID:36437266
Scrub encroachment promotes biodiversity in temperate European wetlands under eutrophic conditions Brunbjerg AK, Fløjgaard C, Frøslev TG, Andersen DK, Bruun HH, Dalby L, Goldberg I, Lehmann LJ, Moeslund JE, Ejrnæs R Ecol Evol 01-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC9627074
doi:10.1002/ece3.9445
PMID:36340817
Ground Vegetation in Pinus sylvestris Forests at Different Successional Stages following Clear Cuttings: A Case Study Gustienė D, Varnagirytė-Kabašinskienė I, Stakėnas V Plants (Basel) 09-Oct-2022
PMCID:PMC9570672
doi:10.3390/plants11192651
PMID:36235517
A Revised Phylogenetic Classification for Viola (Violaceae) Marcussen T, Ballard HE, Danihelka J, Flores AR, Nicola MV, Watson JM Plants (Basel) 27-Aug-2022
PMCID:PMC9460890
doi:10.3390/plants11172224
PMID:36079606
Vegetation Dynamics in a Loess Grassland: Plant Traits Indicate Stability Based on Species Presence, but Directional Change When Cover Is Considered Csontos P, Tamás J, Kovács Z, Schellenberger J, Penksza K, Szili-Kovács T, Kalapos T Plants (Basel) 13-Mar-2022
PMCID:PMC8950867
doi:10.3390/plants11060763
PMID:35336646
Large herbivores facilitate the persistence of rare taxa under tundra warming Post E, Pedersen C, Watts DA Sci Rep 25-Jan-2022
PMCID:PMC8789846
doi:10.1038/s41598-022-05388-4
PMID:35079094
Early Citizen Science Action in Ethnobotany: The Case of the Folk Medicine Collection of Dr. Mihkel Ostrov in the Territory of Present-Day Estonia, 1891–1893 Kalle R, Pieroni A, Svanberg I, Sõukand R Plants (Basel) 20-Jan-2022
PMCID:PMC8840167
doi:10.3390/plants11030274
PMID:35161254
A Unique Population in a Unique Area: The Alcon Blue Butterfly and Its Specific Parasitoid in the Białowieża Forest Dziekańska I, Nowicki P, Pirożnikow E, Sielezniew M Insects 12-Oct-2020
PMCID:PMC7601206
doi:10.3390/insects11100687
PMID:33053630
Renegotiating situativity: transformations of local herbal knowledge in a Western Alpine valley during the past 40 years Fontefrancesco MF, Pieroni A J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 01-Oct-2020
PMCID:PMC7528274
doi:10.1186/s13002-020-00402-3
PMID:32998765
Can we learn from the ecology of the Bohemian gentian and save another closely related species of Gentianella? Křenová Z, Brabec J, Rössler S, Kindlmann P PLoS One 19-Dec-2019
PMCID:PMC6922359
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0226487
PMID:31856191
Models of upland species’ distributions are improved by accounting for geodiversity Bailey JJ, Boyd DS, Field R Landsc Ecol 28-Oct-2018
PMCID:PMC6404796
doi:10.1007/s10980-018-0723-z
PMID:30930538

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