Yellow violet ( lat.Víola lutéa ) is a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Violet of the family Violet .
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Viola lutea Huds. , (1762) |
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Content
Perennial 8–20 cm tall with erect or ascending stems . The leaves are oblong with a town edge and stipules .
The flowers are bisexual, zygomorphic, solitary on long peduncles . Perianth double, five-membered. Petals are yellow or slightly purple, with dark strokes on the three lower petals, the upper petals are light yellow, the front petal is equipped with a spur at the base. The diameter of the flowers is 1.5-3 cm. The flowering is lush, accompanied by a delicate aroma . It blooms in May - July.
The fruit is a tricuspid box opening through the nests. Seeds are small, with endosperm .
General distribution: Northern Europe ( Ireland , Great Britain ), Central Europe ( Austria , Belgium , Hungary , Czechoslovakia , Germany , Luxembourg , the Netherlands , Poland , Switzerland ), South-Western Europe ( France , Spain ).
In vivo in Russia does not grow.
Yellow violet - moderate calcephilus , is particularly unpretentious, frost-resistant. It grows mainly in natural mountain meadows (at an altitude of 1500-2400 m above sea level), in undeveloped highlands, on roadsides.
Galemic plants include a variety of yellow violets Viola lutea var. calaminaria .
Gardening Use
Yellow violet as an ornamental plant has been used since the 16th century [2] (1600 [3] ). Grown in rock gardens . One of the hybrids of this plant is the Viola lutea 'Jumping Jhony' variety with purple flowers, on the lower petal of which a bright yellow pattern is visible [4] .
Viola lutea Huds. Fl. Angl. (Hudson) 331; Sm. Fl. Brit. 1: 248. 1762.
It is one of the initial species when creating the garden violet Viola × wittrockiana Gams ex Hegi [3] .
- ↑ For the conventionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Dicotyledonous article .
- ↑ Sokolova T. A. Ornamental crop production: Floriculture: a textbook for students. universities. - M.: Publ. Center "Academy", 2006. - S. 151.
- ↑ 1 2 Poletiko O. M., Mishenkova A. P. Ornamental grassy plants of open ground. Handbook on the nomenclature of genera and species. - M .: "Science", Leningrad. Dep., 1967 .-- S. 182.
- ↑ http://nympheadesign.com/catalog/mnogoletnie/viola-lutea-jumping-jhony/ (inaccessible link)
- Golovkin B.N. Violets // Alphabet of the Florist. - M.: Bustard, 2005 .-- S. 425 .
- Rock garden: text by V. Vodichkova. - Prague: Arthia, 1989 .-- S. 218–219 .