| Author | Murray | |
| Distribution | Found across most of the state, but scarce in the outer Coastal Plain.
Native of Eurasia and north Africa; in N.A. from Greenland to B.C., south to GA, MS, LA, UT, CA. | |
| Abundance | Fairly common to locally common in the Piedmont and inner Coastal Plain, rare to uncommon in the Mountains, rare in the outer Coastal Plain. | |
| Habitat | Roadsides, lawn weed, garden weed, fields. | |
| Phenology | Flowering March-May. | |
| Identification | European Field Pansy belongs to a large group of violets that have leaves and flowers on the same stem. The relatively small flowers and overall short gestalt of the plant will remind folks of our native American Field Pansy (V. bicolor), which also grows mostly in full sun of fields and roadsides. However, in this case the flowers are cream color with a bright yellow patch on the lower petal. | |
| Taxonomic Comments | General note on Viola: In 2009-10 B.A. Sorrie (website map editor) went through the whole collection at NCU, annotating all specimens against those verified by experts in the genus. The range maps in RAB (1968) have been changed accordingly. More recently, H. Ballard and students are in the process of revising all Southeastern Viola, and they will recognize additional species; this work has now been published (see above). We will follow updated editions of Weakley in recognizing them. | |
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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