| 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, Harvey Ballard and colleagues are in the process of revising all Eastern and Southeastern Viola, and have annotated all specimens at NCU in July 2024. They recognize additional species not in RAB or in previous editions of Weakley et al.; we will follow updated editions of Weakley et al. in recognizing them. Species range maps have been adjusted to account for identification changes. | |
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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