Common dog-violet
Viola riviniana Rchb.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 10 cm
- wide
- 51 cm
Violaceae
Also called Dog violet, European dog violet, Wood violet, Common dog violet
Formerly Viola broussonetiana, Viola guffroyi, Viola insularis, Viola nemorosa, and 3 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Canary Is., Europe to E. Aegean Is., NW. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 10 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 51 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- VioletRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Hain-Veilchen, Rivinis Veilchen
- French
- violette de Rivinius, violette de rivinus
- Russian
- Фиалка Ривинуса
- Swedish
- skogsviol
- Finnish
- metsäorvokki
- Czech
- violka Rivinova
- Danish
- Krat-viol
- Estonian
- võsakannike
- Dutch
- Bleeksporig bosviooltje, bleeksporig bosviooltje
- Norwegian Bokmål
- skogfiol
- Lithuanian
- Rivino našlaitė
- Polish
- Fiołek Rivina
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Viola riviniana (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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