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Viola di Ucria

Viola ucriana

Viola di Ucria
Photo: MIPSG/SSC/IUCN, CC BY-SA 2.5
Family
Violaceae (Violet family)
Native range
N. Sicilia
Climate
subtropical

About

Viola ucriana is a species of plant in the Violaceae family. It is a violet that is endemic to Sicily in Italy, where its known in Italian as Viola di Ucria.

Where it grows

Viola ucriana is only found on Mount Pizzuta, near Palermo in north-western Sicily, growing above the Piana degli Albanesi at an elevation of 800–1,300 metres (2,600–4,300 ft). Its natural habitats are in Mediterranean shrubby vegetation and rocky areas here.

Other Viola plants

Viola abbreviata · Viola abyssinica · Hookedspur violet · White Violet · Viola angustifolia · Field Pansy · Australian Native Violet · Viola betonicifolia · Viola lutea subsp. calaminaria · Canadian white violet · Horned Pansy · Viola cotyledon

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Viola ucriana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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