European field pansy
Viola arvensis Murray
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 20 cm
- wide
- —
Violaceae
Also called European Field-pansy, Wild Pansy, Field Pansy, Field pansy
Formerly Mnemion arvense
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to Siberia and Iran, Macaronesia to NW. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 20 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, purpleRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension purple, white, yellow; Wikipedia purple, white
Not known yet: spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Dutch
- Akkerviooltje, akkerviooltje
- root
- VIOARV, Մանուշակ սովորական
- Russian
- Фиалка полевая
- Belarusian
- Фіялка палявая
- German
- Acker-Stiefmütterchen, Acker-Veilchen, Feld-Stiefmütterchen
- French
- Pensée des champs, pensée des champs
- Polish
- Fiołek polny
- Czech
- violka rolní
- Chinese
- 野生菫菜, 田野堇菜, 野生堇菜
- Danish
- Ager-stedmoderblomst
- Estonian
- põldkannike
- Finnish
- Pelto-orvokki, pelto-orvokki
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Viola arvensis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.