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  • COMMON NAME: Sweet violet
  • ARABIC: بنفسج
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Viola cinerea Boiss.
  • FAMILY: VIOLACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Slope (Rocky)
  • TYPES: Annual Perennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP).
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:867900-1/images Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.
Small, delicate herb, up to 20 cm high. Stems short diffuse branching from base. Leaves 1-3 cm long and 0.5-1.5 cm broad, ovate to elliptic, entire or wavy, scabrous margins, acute apiculated or mucronate, tapering towards the base, with a long petiole. Stipules leafy, fringed, hairy. Flowers 0.5-1.0 cm long, axillary on stalks that extend beyond leaves. Bracts subulate. Sepals 0.3-0.5 cm. long, lanceolate, with scarious margins, aristate. Petals with unequal size, pale or white; spur very short. Style clavate. Stigma of 2 oblong parallel disks. Fruit a 3-valved capsule, elliptic, acute. Flowering from February to April.
Mostly in dry rocky wadis and mountains. It grows at all elevations especially in northern Emirates.
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