堇菜目是属于双子叶植物纲的一类植物，有草本或木本，本目植物的花一般为两性，整齐，花瓣以5为基数。

堇菜目下有24个科，主要有葫芦科、大风子科、堇菜科、红木科、西番莲科、柽柳科、秋海棠科、番木瓜科、旌节花科等。

目前堇菜目已被撤销。

曾经属于堇菜目的科：

Violales is a botanical name of an order of flowering plants and takes its name from the included family Violaceae. The name has been used in several systems, although some systems used the name Parietales for similar groupings. In the 1981 version of the influential Cronquist system, order Violales was placed in subclass Dilleniidae with a circumscription consisting of the families listed below. The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system does not recognize order Violales; Violaceae is placed in order Malpighiales and the other families are reassigned to various orders as indicated.