Viola arvensisMurray

European field pansy

WFO wfo-0000426676 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Viola arvensis, photographed by Tatiana Strus
fig. a Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205148203
Viola arvensis, photographed by Tatiana Strus
fig. b Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205599828
Viola arvensis, photographed by Tatiana Strus
fig. c Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205728306
Viola arvensis, photographed by Tatiana Strus
fig. d Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205968719
Viola arvensis, photographed by snaily_naily
fig. e snaily_naily, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203258089
Viola arvensis, photographed by timharris
fig. f timharris, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203474439
Viola arvensis, photographed by Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas
fig. g Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202106757
Viola arvensis, photographed by Вячеслав Юсупов
fig. h Вячеслав Юсупов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203414586

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 7,777 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 7,777 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 16 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Mnemion agreste (Jord.) Fourr.
  • Mnemion arvense (Murray) Nieuwl. & Kaczm.
  • Mnemion gracilescens (Jord.) Fourr.
  • Mnemion obtusifolium (Jord.) Fourr.
  • Mnemion segetale (Jord.) Fourr.
  • Viola agrestis Jord.
  • Viola arvatica Jord.
  • Viola arvensis subsp. arvensis
  • Viola atlantica Pomel
  • Viola aurasiaca Pomel
  • Viola deseglisei Jord. ex Boreau
  • Viola gracilescens Jord.
  • Viola latifolia Drabble
  • Viola megalantha (Nauenb.) G.H.Loos
  • Viola segetalis Jord.
  • Viola tricolor var. arvensis (Murray) DC.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.