Scientific name: Viola arvensis Murray
Common name: Field Pansy
Description
Habit: Annual, to 40 cm high.
Stems: Erect, branched, leafy.
Leaves: Alternate, stalked, with stipules that are conspicuous, lobed almost to the base; undivided, oval, bluntly toothed.
Flowers: Creamy white with a yellow eye, often streaked with violet, zygomorphic, hermaphrodite, 12-15 mm, solitary, on erect flower stalks axillary or arising from basal rosette; sepals 5, free, equal, with short extension below the insertion; petals 5, free, unequal, slightly shorter than sepals, the lower petal with a backwards directed creamy white spur that encloses nectar-secreting spurs of 2 lower stamens; stamens 5; ovary 1-celled, style 1.
Fruits: A capsule, with numerous seeds.
Habitat: Cultivated fields, open habitats.Distribution: Rather rare.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No