A popular, decorative garden flower hybridized from [i]Viola tricolor[/i] with other [i]Viola[/i] species.  Popular for use in [[flower bed|flower beds]].

Pansies come in practically every color of the rainbow.  Pansies have a very distinctive flower with five petals, arranged with three petals on top, usually with a dark lobe pattern in the center that combines to give the impression of a butterfly.  

This center, darkened pattern is generally how you tell pansies from [[violet_(flower)|violets]] and other [i]Viola[/i] species.

h4.  See also

* [[Violet (flower)]]
* [[Tag group:Flowers]]

h4. External links

* "Wikipedia: Pansy":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansy
* "Wikipedia: Viola (plant)":[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_(plant)]
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