Pansy
Viola × wittrockiana Gams
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 19 cm
- wide
- 27 cm
Violaceae
Also called Garden pansy
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
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.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Biennial or subshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Nowhere: raised in cultivationKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 15 cm to 23 cmRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 6–9 in; RHS 10–50 cm
- Spread
- 23 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 9–12 in; RHS 10–50 cm
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- White, yellow, red, purple, blueRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -19.1 °C (USDA zone 6b)Read from NC State Extension and RHS, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -23.3 °C; RHS -15 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Lithuanian
- Darželinė našlaitė
- Japanese
- パンジー
- Finnish
- tarhaorvokki
- Norwegian Bokmål
- hagestemorsblom
- German
- Garten-Stiefmütterchen
- Estonian
- aedkannike, võõrasema
- French
- Pensée des jardins
- root
- Viola altaica × lutea ssp. sudetica × tricolor, Grootmudderbloom, onahina
- Russian
- Фиалка Виттрока
- Spanish
- Pensamientos
- Swedish
- pensé
- Danish
- Stedmoderblomst
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Viola × wittrockiana (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.