Other conspecific taxa:

• Viola tricolor subsp. curtisii (0 accessions)
• Viola tricolor subsp. macedonica (1 accessions)
• Viola tricolor subsp. matutina (0 accessions)
• Viola tricolor subsp. subalpina (0 accessions)
• Viola tricolor subsp. tricolor (3 accessions)

Common names:

• European wild pansy  (Source: Hortus 3) - English
• field pansy  (Source: Hortus 3) - English
• heart's-ease  (Source: Cornucopia) - English
• Johnny-jump-up  (Source: Dict Gard) - English
• love-in-idleness  (Source: Dict Gard) - English
• miniature pansy  (Source: Hortus 3) - English
• pansy  (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2) - English
• wild pansy  (Source: F BritStace) - English
• wild pansy   - English (Canada)
• pensée  (Source: F Canada) - French
• violette tricolore   - French (Canada)
• sanshiki-sumire  (Source: F Japan) - Japanese Rōmaji
• styvmorsviol  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
• san se jin  (Source: F China) - Transcribed Chinese

Economic Importance:

• Environmental: ornamental
• Human food:
• Medicines: folklore
• Weed: potential seed contaminant (common in several countries)

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

• WESTERN ASIA: Iran (n.w.), Turkey
• SIBERIA: Russian Federation-Western Siberia [Western Siberia]

Europe

• NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom
• MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland
• EASTERN EUROPE: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Federation-European part, [European part] Ukraine
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Former Yugoslavia, Greece, Italy, Romania
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France, Spain


Cultivated (also cult.)

Naturalized (natzd. elsewhere)

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Images:

• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing