| English | common violet | | | 1 | Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource). |
| English | English violet | | | 1 | Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada |
| English | florist's violet | | | 1 | Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada |
| English | garden violet | | | 1 | Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening 4:671. |
| English | sweet violet | | | 1 | Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. |
| Chinese | xiang jin cai | 香堇菜 | | 2 | Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition). |
| English (Canada) | sweet violet | | Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada official name | 2 | Darbyshire, S. J. 2003. Inventory of Canadian Agricultural Weeds Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 175. |
| French | violette odorante | | | 2 | Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7 GEVES-SNES, Beaucouzé, France. |
| French (Canada) | violette odorante | | Agriculture & Agroalimentaire Canada nom officiel | 2 | Darbyshire, S. J. 2003. Inventory of Canadian Agricultural Weeds Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 175. |
| India | banafsha | | | 2 | Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993-. Flora of India. |
| Japanese Rōmaji | nioi-sumire | | | 2 | Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993-. Flora of Japan. |
| Swedish | luktviol | | | 2 | Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource) |
| Transliterated Russian | fialka | | | 2 | Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6 |