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Viola tricolor L., 1753

Common names

  • 🇬🇧 Wild Pansy
  • 🇫🇷 Violette tricolore, Pensée sauvage, Pensée tricolore

Taxonomy

  • Kingdom: Plantae
  • Clade: Tracheophytes
  • Clade: Angiosperms
  • Clade: Eudicots
  • Clade: Superrosids
  • Clade: Rosids
  • Clade: Fabids
  • Order: Malpighiales
  • Family: Violaceae
  • Subfamily: Violoideae
  • Genus: Viola
  • Section: Melanium
  • Species: Viola tricolor

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

  • Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
  • Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern

Notes

Possible confusion with V. arvensis Murray, 1770, whose flowers have a lower petal with a short yellow base and 0-2 black stripes on the lateral petals, while those of V. tricolor have a lower petal with a large yellow base, or a fully yellow petal, and 2-3 black stripes on the lateral petals.

The following infraspecific taxa are accepted:

  • V. tricolor subsp. curtisii (E.Forst.) Syme, 1865, P;
  • V. tricolor subsp. macedonica (Boiss. & Heldr.) A.F.W.Schmidt, 1967;
  • V. tricolor subsp. matutina (Klokov) Valentine, 1967;
  • V. tricolor subsp. polychroma (A.Kern.) Nyman, 1889;
  • V. tricolor subsp. saxatilis (F.W.Schmidt) Arcang., 1882, P;
  • V. tricolor subsp. tricolor L., 1753, P.

Photographs

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