| Section |
Patellares (Boissier) Nakai |
| Scientific Name |
| Viola yezoensis Maximowicz |
Hikage Sumire |
| Viola yezoensis f. discolor (Nakai) Hiyama ex F. Maekawa |
Takao Sumire |
| Viola yezoensis var. asoana Hama |
Aso Hikage Sumire |
|
| yezoensis : It is a name originating in a area name. cf.: Tohoku & Hokkaido area |
| Stalk Form |
The individual leaves and flowering stalks emerge directly from the rootstock. |
| Habitat |
It grows to shade with a lot of moistures of the mountainous district. |
| Distribution |
A lot of this violets grow naturally in the Pacific Ocean side mountainous district in the central part north. And carries out isolation distribution in Kushiro, Hiroshima, and the Aso area, and then Korean peninsula and China. |
| Flower |
Size |
Middle size (around 2cm). |
| Color |
A center is yellowish green with a beautiful white flower. |
| Leaf |
Size |
3 - 6cm long x 2 - 3cm wide. (It becomes large in summer.) |
| Color |
Bright green. |
| Type Specimen |
Hakodate city in Hokkaido 1861 collected by Maximowicz. |
| Chromosomes Number |
2n=24 |
| Others |
It builds a new seedling from the point of a root. |
