HEARTSEASE

Viola tricolor, known as heartsease or love-in-idleness, is a common European wild flower, in the Violaceae family, growing as an annual or short-lived perennial. It is the progenitor of the cultivated pansy, and is therefore sometimes called wild pansy; before the cultivated pansies were developed, "pansy" was an alternative name for the wild form.

V. tricolor is a small plant of creeping and ramping habit, reaching at most 15 cm in height, with flowers about 1.5 cm in diameter. It grows in short grassland on farms and wasteland, chiefly on acid or neutral soils. It is usually found in partial shade. It readily self-seeds and will happily grow throughout one's whole garden.

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