- Asset ID
- 437
- Title
- Viola tricolor
- Creator
- NHM
- Credit
- Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London
- KEYWORDS
- Studio shot
plant
botanical
specimen
foliage
life sciences
black background
flower
inflorescence

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Viola tricolor
A common European wild flower, it grows in short grassland on farms and wasteland. It is the progenitor of the cultivated pansy. As its name implies, heartsease has a long history of use in herbalism.