Wild Pansy
Viola tricolor L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 17 cm
- wide
- 19 cm
Violaceae
Also called Heartsease, Heart's Ease, Johnny-jump-up, Pansy violet, Love-in-idleness
Formerly Jacea tricolor, Mnemion tricolor
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
- Annual or subshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to SW. Siberia and NW. IranKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 8 cm to 25 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 8 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, cream, yellow, orange, purple, blueRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Dutch
- Driekleurig viooltje, driekleurig viooltje
- Swedish
- Styvmorsviol
- Spanish
- Violeta persa, Pensamiento
- root
- VIOTRI, trílitt blákolla, Þrenningarfjóla
- Chinese
- 三色堇
- Russian
- Фиалка трёхцветная, Анютины глазки, анютины глазки
- French
- Pensée tricolore, pensée sauvage
- Finnish
- Keto-orvokki, keto-orvokki
- Czech
- violka trojbarevná
- Danish
- Stedmoderblomst
- Estonian
- aaskannike, käoorvik
- German
- Wildes Stiefmütterchen, Gewöhnliches Stiefmütterchen, Echtes Veilchen
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
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Viola tricolor (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.