Plant Details

Accepted name:: Viola sororia Willd. [Violaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
amerika-fuki-sumire	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
amerika-sumire-saishin	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
banafsha	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
bayou violet	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
blue praire violet	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
common blue violet	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
common meadow violet	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
dooryard violet	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
downy blue violet	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
downy blueviolet	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
fjärilsviol	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
hooded blueviolet	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
sister violet	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
violet	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
violette septentrionale	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
woolly blue violet	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 18 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Viola alachuana Murrill Quart. J. Florida Acad. Sci. 12: 61 (1950).
Viola allardii Greene Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit. 2: 41 (1910).
Viola cucullata var. alba Torr. & A.Gray Fl. N. Amer. 1: 137 (1838).
Viola cucullata var. glaberrima Ging. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 1: 292 (1824).
Viola cucullata var. sororia (Willd.) Torr. & A.Gray Fl. N. Amer. 1: 137 (1838).
Viola cuspidata Greene Pittonia 3: 314 (1898).
Viola domestica f. alba Farw. Pap. Michigan Acad. Sci. 2: 30 (1923).
Viola laetecaerulea Greene Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 14: 70 (1901).
Viola nodosa Greene Pittonia 4: 296 (1901).
Viola palmata var. sororia (Willd.) Pollard Bot. Gaz. 25: 332 (1898).
Viola papilionacea var. alba (Torr. & A.Gray) Farw. Rep. (Annual) Michigan Acad. Sci. 19: 259 (1917).
Viola papilionacea f. albiflora Grover Ohio J. Sci. 39: 148 (1939).
Viola papilionacea var. domestica Pollard in N.L.Britton, Man. Fl. N. States: 636 (1901).
Viola papilionacea f. michaelii Creutz Wild Fl. 35: 9 (1959).
Viola sororia f. beckwithiae House Bull. New York State Mus. Nat. Hist. 243-244: 40 (1923).
Viola sororia var. incognita J.Lacey Sida 3: 312 (1969).
Viola sororia f. pallida F.Seym. Phytologia Mem. 5: 395 (1982).
Viola wilmatteae Pollard & Cockerell Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 15: 178 (1902).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Viola sororia Willd.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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