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§1 Plant
Viola tricolor L.
vernacular johnny jumpup — species · Violaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Violaceae Batsch
- Genus
- Viola
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Introduced
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 173 counties across 26 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 173 counties across 26 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Alaska view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 3 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 4 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 8 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 14 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 20 I ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 24 I ▾
- Adams 55001
- Buffalo 55011
- Columbia 55021
- Dane 55025
- Eau Claire 55035
- Florence 55037
- Grant 55043
- Kewaunee 55061
- Manitowoc 55071
- Marathon 55073
- Marinette 55075
- Marquette 55077
- Milwaukee 55079
- Oneida 55085
- Portage 55097
- Price 55099
- Richland 55103
- Rusk 55107
- Sheboygan 55117
- Vilas 55125
- Walworth 55127
- Waupaca 55135
- Winnebago 55139
- Wood 55141
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/VITR ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5331347 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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