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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 rafinesquei (syn. Viola bicolor), commonly known as the American field pansy or wild pansy, is an annual plant in the violet family found throughout much of North America. [2] There has been some debate as to whether the plant is native there or if it was introduced from the Old World as a variety of Viola kitaibeliana , but it is now ...
Junonia oenone, the blue pansy or dark blue pansy, is a Nymphalid butterfly native to Africa. [2] [3] "Blue pansy" is also used in India to describe Junonia orithya. [1]
Junonia orithya is a nymphalid butterfly with many subspecies occurring from Africa, through southern and south-eastern Asia, and in Australia. [1] [2] [3] In India, its common English name is the blue pansy, [2] [3] but in southern Africa it is known as the eyed pansy as the name blue pansy refers to Junonia oenone.
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; the name of the locomotive on the Richmond–Kurrajong railway line; Frank Iero's Les Paul guitar
The Pansy Craze was a period of increased LGBT visibility in American popular culture from the late-1920s until the mid-1930s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] During the " craze ," drag queens — known as "pansy performers" — experienced a surge in underground popularity, especially in New York City , Chicago , Los Angeles , and San Francisco .
Upperside of both sexes pale lavender brown, apical half of wings paler. Forewing: cell with, three transverse, short, sinuous black bands, the outermost defining the discocellulars; a similar short, somewhat broader band beyond the apex of the cell; two transverse discal dusky black fasciae, the inner highly sinuous and outward, angulate above vein 4, the outer straighter, somewhat lunular ...
Junonia artaxia, the African pansy or commodore, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in eastern Angola , the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Lomami, Kabinda, Lualaba, Shaba and Tanganika) Burundi , Kenya , southern and western Tanzania , Zambia , Malawi , Mozambique and Zimbabwe . [ 2 ]