kingdom Plantae - plants »  divisio Magnoliophyta - flowering plants »  class Rosopsida - eudicots » order Malpighiales »  family Violaceae »  tribus Violeae > genus Viola > Viola sect. Melanium  Ging. 

Viola oreades M. Bieb.

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Distributional Range: Native Asia-Temperate WESTERN ASIA: Turkey CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation [Checheno-Ingushetia, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Krasnodar]Europe EASTERN EUROPE: Ukraine

Description: Grassy perennial with branched underground rhizome. Rosette shoots 5–15 cm high. Leaves up to 10 mm wide and 65 mm long, long-shoot, ovate or oblong elliptic, on the edge of the town, with 2–5 flat teeth on each side; stipules 2–3 cm long, cirrus into 1-3 lobes up to 0.5 cm long, scattered or densely hairy. Peduncles axial, glabrous, sepals oblong-lanceolate, 0.8–1.3 cm long, corolla 2–4 cm in diameter, yellow or purple, less often white or blue, spur 4–9 mm long. The fruit is a box, up to 1 cm long.

Habitat: pine woodlands and mountain (northern slopes) meadow steppes at an altitude of 1200–1400 m above sea level

References:

1. Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR) Cambridge University Press.

2. Davis, P. H., ed. 1965-1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. Note: = Viola altaica subsp. oreades (M. Bieb.) W. Becker

3. Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934-1964. Flora SSSR.

4. Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964-1980. Flora europaea.