Violets: photos and names describing the species (yellow, dog, fragrant garden perennial, notched, Butterfly, amazing, chimera, Josephine, Trendy Mix)

Real violets, otherwise called Viols, grow mainly in the Northern Hemisphere. They can often be found in mountains and temperate regions, the highest concentration of violets in North America, the Andes and Japan. Violas have single asymmetric flowers with five simple petals, the lower of which has a spur.

Speaking of violets, many amateur gardeners have in mind the Saintpaulia violet, Saintpaulia. This flower belongs to a completely different species and is similar to viola only in the form of leaves and a little flowers.

Uzambara violet has a southern origin: mountainous areas of East Africa. Below are the main types of both those and other violets, as well as popular varieties and famous domestic breeders.

The main types of flowers with names and descriptions

Real violets, viols, - garden herbaceous plants, in their natural form, widely distributed in Europe, Central Russia, Western and Eastern Siberia. Horned violet is most actively used in breeding. Also, to obtain hybrids, tricolor, Altai and yellow are used.

Garden

Types of violets, pansies	Appearance	Distribution area
Marsh	Height 5-15 cm. Perennial rosette without leafy stem. Wide leaves are similar to lotus leaves. The flowers are from light purple to whitish.	It is found in the European part of Russia along peat bogs, the banks of reservoirs, and marshy meadows. In Central and Eastern Europe.
Wittrock, garden pansies	Hybrid tricolor violets, flowers are larger than hers. Height 15-40 cm. Dark green leaves of an ovoid form. Coloring is the most diverse: white, yellow, orange, red, blue, violet. Solid color or with strokes.	Garden widely cultivated species. Central Europe.
Fragrant	Height up to 15 cm. Without stem with basal rosette of leaves. Leaves are almost rounded, deeply cordate at the base. The flowers are dark purple with a pleasant strong aroma.	Garden perennial plant. It is rare, planted in gardens, parks, cemeteries. Crimea, Caucasus, Balkans, Central Europe.
Pubescent	Height 5-10 cm. Leaves triangular-cordate pubescent on two sides. Lilac flowers on long pedicels.	It grows in forests, meadows, and steppes. Europe and the Mediterranean.
Single-flowered	Height is up to 30 cm. Large mustard yellow flowers with dark strokes.	In the taiga of Siberia, Mongolia, in the Far East. In mixed forests, tundra, meadows.
Field	Leaves of a lanceolate form. The flowers are white with a yellow lower petal. Height 20 cm.	Along the road, weed in the fields. The European part of Russia, the south of Siberia, Europe.
Dog	Monochrome light blue flowers with a white throat. Leaves are ovoid at the base of the heart. The stems are bare, form turfs. Height 5-15 cm	In forests, in meadows, in moorlands. Eastern and Central Europe, the Caucasus, Western and Eastern Siberia.
Topyanaya	Height 7-20 cm. Light purple plain flowers. Dark green leaves are rounded ovoid.	Northern Europe, the middle strip of Russia. On the wet marshy banks of rivers, streams, in floodplain meadows.
Tricolor, pansies	The upper petals are purple, the middle two are lighter, the lower is the longest yellow at the base and white to the edge. 1-2 year old plant. Leaves oblong-lanceolate.	In the fields, meadows, hills. Eastern and Central Europe, the Caucasus, Western Siberia, the Far East.
Amazing	Smelling light purple flowers. Leaves are like plantain. No stems, basal rosette of leaves. Height 20-40 cm.	In oak forests, bushes. Central Europe.
Two-flowered	Bright yellow with dark strokes tubular flowers. Heart-shaped pointed at the tips of dark green leaves.	In the tundra, alpine meadows, in the Carpathians
Hooked	The flowers are purple, leaves with a purple tint. Height 5-10 cm.	Widely distributed in North America.
Canadian	Thin stem, purple flowers, leaves with a purple tint.	Mountainous wooded areas of North America.
Horned	Flowers from pale blue to dark purple. At the back of flowers there is a spur for nectar, long pedicels up to 15 cm. Height 20-25 cm. The leaves are dark green oval.	Southern Europe. Ornamental garden plant.
Hoody, Moth	Height is up to 20 cm. The leaves are oval, pointed at the tips, ovate on long petioles. The flowers are purple, sometimes white.	Eastern North America.
Peach leaf, pond	Narrow triangular leaves. The flowers are bluish or yellowish-white with green-yellow spurs. Creeping rhizome.	Central, Northern and Eastern Europe. North Asia. Damp places with calcareous soils.
Kriyan. Extinct 1930s	Light green fleshy leaves. The bare stems. Height 12 cm. Purple flowers.	Cretaceous slopes of southeast France.
Altai	Up to 20 cm high. The flowers are blue-violet with a yellow eye, dark touches on the lower leaves. The leaves are round-ovate.	Altai, Kazakhstan, Western Siberia.
Yellow	Flowers with light yellow upper petals, lower petals saturated yellow with dark strokes. The leaves are oblong with a wavy edge.	Pyrenees and Alps
Notched, notched	Stemless with a rosette of leaves. Up to 20 cm high. Thyroid leaves incised at the base. The flowers are bluish-lilac.	North of Russia, Altai, Primorsky Territory, south of Siberia.
Brevipipulata	Height is 15-30 cm. Bright yellow flowers are monophonic. Saturated green leaves, shiny rounded ovoid with a serrated edge.	Japan

Uzambar

Violets indoor or uzambar, senpolia, native to the mountainous regions of East Africa (Tanzania and Kenya).

Types of uzambar violets, saintpoly	Appearance
Chimera	Simple 5 petal flowers with a characteristic light stripe running along the central axis of the petal. Dark green leaves.
Butterfly	Large terry purple-blue flowers with a white wavy border.
Josephine	Saturated dark blue or purple. Plain non-double flowers with corrugated edges.
Trendy mix	Simple five petal flowers. The lower petals are white with a colored border that goes into the main background of the upper petals.
Velvet	Small dark purple flowers with a dark center. Rounded leaves with a serrated edge, dark green in color with a reddish inside.
Grote	Ampel view of violets. Pubescent rounded bright green leaves. Small light lilac flowers.

The shape of the leaf plates of senpolia is:

round;
ovoid;
oblong;
flat or concave spoon-shaped;
with slightly wavy or corrugated edges;
with a heart-shaped or flat base;
with a sharp or rounded tip.

According to the structure of flowers, the classification is much more extensive and includes:

Bell-shaped. Tubular flowers in the form of a gramophone.
Star-shaped. Five identical petals with pointed tips, evenly distributed.
Wasp-like. The two upper petals are much smaller in size than the others.
Classic. Asymmetric flowers are non-double, the petals are solid.
Finger-type. Light oval and round spot in the center of the petal.
Bordered. A contrasting border appears in a cool room.
Fantasy. On the main tone of the petals there are various impregnations of a different color.
Reverse Fantasy. White strokes, spots and another pattern on a colored background.
Chimera. From the center of the flower to the edges are rays of various colors. In the center of the petal is a contrast strip.

Classification

Classification	Subdivision
In shape	Classic Anyutki (asymmetric) Stars Bells
According to the degree of terry	Wasps Simple Scallop Half Terry Terry
Along the edge of the petals	Carnations Wavy Notched Fringed
By color	Solid Two-tone Tricolor Bordered Finger Fantasy

Photo

Check out the photo of varietal violets: Yellow, Chimera and others.

Yellow

Chimera

Another Chimera

Josephine

Altai

What colors are there?

Among the garden violets, the most popular are tricolors with a purple background., better known as pansies. But there are absolutely snow-white, yellow, blue and even almost black viols.

Coloring garden violets

Colors of flowers	Grade
Snow white	Alba, Albiflora
Pink	Coeur d'Alsace, Lydia Groves
Baby blue	Boughton blue, marie louise
White and purple	Columbine, Pearl Waterfall
White yellow	Ettain
Blue violet	Hansa, Le France
Yellow maroon	Sparkler
Bronze yellow	Amber Kiss
Brown	Frost chocolade

On a note. Uzambara violets in nature have a predominantly blue-blue color.

But the description of the colors can be continued, because Thanks to the work of breeders, varieties with snow-white, pink, yellow, raspberry, green color are bred.

Coloring of uzambar violets

Colors of flowers	Grade
Whites	LE Abigail, EC-White Waltz
Reds	LE Antares, LE Betelgeuse
Blue	LE-Graf Cagliostro, EC Evening in Paradise
Green	LE Ireland, EC-Green Cockatoo
Pink	LE Maria Mirabella, EC-Diamonds of Yakutia
Yellow	LE Oscar, EC-Yellow Chicks
Blue	LE-Elven Garden, EC-Aqua Diamond
Purple	EC-Fun Boatswain

Popular varieties of indoor plants

Indoor violets are in almost every house and, for sure, among them there are the most popular varieties that can be found in the table below.

Popular varieties of violets

Popular varieties	Description	Breeder
Chanson	Dark blue terry flowers with pink fantasy specks.	Foreign breeding
"Blue fog"	Light blue terry "lace" flowers with a wavy pale border.	K. Morev
Isadora	Large white semi-double flowers with pink and lilac spots and strokes.	E. Lebedskaya
"Bronze Horseman"	Dense "wax" half-double petals with a corrugated edge. Flowers are flesh-pink with a golden green edge. The leaves are dark green, wavy.	E. Lebedskaya
Forest Violet	Dark blue simple flowers with white corrugated border. The leaves are rounded with a bright spot in the center and a serrated edge.	Foreign breeding
"Fairy"	Large double flowers with serrated border. The flowers are white with a pink hue in the center, the border is pink with fuchsia dots.	T. Dadoyan
"The greenhouse effect"	Simple or semi-double bells. The flowers are white with a green-brown corrugated border.	K. Morev
Optima	Dense flowers with pink or blue eye. Light green rounded leaves with a serrated edge.	Foreign breeding
Frosty Cherry	Dark raspberry petal with a white wavy border. Semi-double flowers.	K. Morev
"Winter cherry"	Large semi-double raspberry-cherry flowers with perforated white border.	E. Korshunova

You can familiarize yourself with the violets Frosty Cherry and Winter Cherry in this article.

Famous Breeders

Florists of Europe and America have been engaged in the selection and breeding of hybrids of uzambar violet for more than 200 years. In Russia, breeders for the first time began serious work on hybridization only from the late 90s of the last century.

The most famous domestic breeders of violets are presented below.

Russian breeders of violets

Breeders	Information	City	Varieties
Lebedskaya Elena Anatolyevna	In breeding since 2000, more than 300 varieties were obtained. Participates annually in the exhibitions of the House of Violets in Moscow. Varieties are distinguished by a compact rosette of leaves.	Lives in Vinnitsa (Ukraine)	LE Isadora, LE Berenice
Korshunova Elena Vasilievna	In breeding since the mid 90s. Specializes in large-flowered varieties.	Togliatti	EC-Heavenly creation, EC-Masterpiece of the artist
Makuni Boris Mikhailovich	The end of the 90s was the beginning of serious work in breeding. Over 400 varieties.	Moscow	Winter is smiling, Banker.
Puminova Natalya Aleksandrovna	Prefers miniature varieties: mini and semi-mini.	Moscow	Jan Minuet, Jan Shehran
Morev Konstantin	Half-double flowers with wavy edges of the petals - his corporate identity.	Moscow, neighbor Makuni	SM-Amadeus, SM-Olesya
Berdnikova Nadezhda Dmitrievna	In breeding since 2012. Miniature varieties of mini and semi-mini.	Moscow	N-Adam, N-Gretchen
Aksenkina Olga	In selection since 2004. Yellow colors of flowers. As part of the team "New Names" is participating in exhibitions.	Moscow	DEO-Queen Elizabeth, DEO-Dark Pearl
Pugacheva Tatyana	Representative of the exhibition "Blooming May". Specializes in standard sized violets.	Kursk	PT-Angelica, PT-Elizabeth
Repkina Svetlana	Over 200 varieties. In selection since 2002. Large flowers and sockets.	Dnepropetrovsk	RS-Aquamarine, RS-Ariel
Fialvodok, Tarasov Alexey Vsevolodovich	Large double flowers. The owner of a specialized store of violets.	Moscow	AB-Tango, AB-Black Prince
Prilutskaya Svetlana Ivanovna	In selection since the 90s.	Volnyansk, Zaporizhzhya region	Princess Mary Carmen
Arkhipov Evgeny	Biologist by education, in breeding since 2002	Moscow	AE-Adventure, AE-Armageddon
Skornyakova Natalia	In selection since 2004	Kursk	RM-Vasilisa, RM-Rosita
Dadoyan Tatyana Lvovna	Corrugated border flowers.	Moscow	Fairy, Burian

Violets, both garden viols and indoor vampires, are unpretentious and endurance. Abundant flowering they delight with a minimum of effort. Hybrids of bright garden species adorn each flowerbed, their fragrant counterparts are used in medicine.

The variety of colors of indoor violets, the shapes of their petals and leaves deservedly won the hearts of amateur gardeners. Absolutely everyone will find for themselves a favorite variety of 1,500 existing ones. And if not, then more and more hybrids appear every year.