Irish wildflowers
Photographs: Co. Cork |
Garden Pansy Viola x wittrockiana Family: Violaceae Usually flowering early spring to summer, some varieties autumn-winter. Short-lived perennials, annuals or biennials. Garden escape. Solitary five-petalled flowers, more/less rounded, the side petals overlapping upper and lower petals. Bi-coloured with central patterned 'faces', also a wide range of single coloured forms. The flowers lack scent. Ovate to heart-shaped leaves, shallow-lobed, glossy-green. Popular garden plants, found as an escape or discard on roadsides, waste ground and rubbish tips. Similar: Violas. Tufted perennials with smaller, often scented, flowers |
Garden Pansy, Viola x wittrockiana
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