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The garden pansy (Viola × wittrockiana) is a type of polychromatic large-flowered hybrid plant cultivated as a garden flower. [2] It is derived by hybridization from several species in the section Melanium ("the pansies") [3] of the genus Viola, particularly V. tricolor, a wildflower of Europe and western Asia known as heartsease.
Viola tricolor is a common European wild flower, growing as an annual or short-lived perennial.The species is also known as wild pansy, Johnny Jump up (though this name is also applied to similar species such as the yellow pansy), heartsease, heart's ease, heart's delight, tickle-my-fancy, Jack-jump-up-and-kiss-me, come-and-cuddle-me, three faces in a hood, love-in-idleness, and pink of my john.
Viola is a genus of flowering plants in the violet family Violaceae.It is the largest genus in the family, containing over 680 species. Most species are found in the temperate Northern Hemisphere; however, some are also found in widely divergent areas such as Hawaii, Australasia, and the Andes.
This is a list of species in the plant genus Viola, often known as violets or pansies. Viola is the largest genus in the family Violaceae, containing over 680 species. [1] Although similarly named, neither African violets nor dogtooth violets are closely related to the true violas.
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flower and leaves. Viola arvensis is a species of violet known by the common name field pansy.It is native to Europe, western Asia, and North Africa, and it is known on other continents as an introduced species and a weed of disturbed and cultivated areas.
Viola pedunculata is a perennial, growing from a spongy rhizome.The plant is often low-growing, but can reach a height of 6 inches (15 cm). The leaves are 1-5.5 cm long, cordate (heart-shaped) to deltate-ovate (oblong-triangular), scalloped or toothed, and glabrous or hairy. [4]
Pansy (Fabergé egg) Pansy Parkinson, a minor character in the Harry Potter fiction series; a pejorative term for a gay man. Pansy Craze, a LGBT cultural phenomenon in the United States from the late-1920s to the mid-1930s