Common violet
Viola odorata
Scientific Name
Viola odorata L.
Common Names
common violet, English violet, florist's violet, fragrant violet, garden violet, sweet blue violet, sweet violet, violet
Family
Violaceae
Origin
Native to Europe, the Azores, the Madeira Islands, the Canary Islands and western Asia (i.e. Cyprus and Turkey).
Naturalised Distribution
Widely naturalised in southern Australia (i.e. in many parts of eastern New South Wales and Victoria, in the ACT, in south-eastern and eastern South Australia and in the coastal districts of south-western Western Australia). Also sparingly naturalised in south-eastern Queensland.
Widely naturalised in North America (i.e. Canada and the USA), Hawaii, Japan and New Zealand.
Notes
Common violet (Viola odorata) is regarded as a common environmental weed in Victoria and South Australia, and as a minor environmental weed or "sleeper weed " in New South Wales, the ACT and Western Australia.
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