Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Viola odorata
Common name
Sweet violet, Common violet
Family
Violaceae
Where found
Widely cultivated in gardens, naturalised in moist places. Widespread.
Notes
Perennial herb with slender stolons and/or rhizomes. Stems short and erect, sparsely hairy. Leaves basal and alternating along the stems, 1.5–7 cm long, 15–70 mm wide, deeply cordate at the base, margins finely scalloped, tips blunt, stalks to 0.25 m long, hairy with downward pointing hairs. Flowers fragrant. Flowers deep violet to white, sometimes mauve or pink, with 5 petals each usually 12–17 mm long, the lower petal prominently spurred at the base. Flowers single. Flowering: winter-summer.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Viola~odorata (accessed 11 February, 2021)
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