Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Viola arvensis
Common name
Field Pansy
Family
Violaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, grassy areas, roadsides, and disturbed moist sites. Mainly Kosciuszko National Park and the mountains to the north. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced annual or biennial herb to 0.08 m high, often sprawling. Stems angular, hairless to hairy. Leaves alternating along the stems, 1–3.5 cm long, 5–15 mm wide, margins bluntly toothed to scalloped, tips blunt. Stipules mostly 20–40 mm long, divided into lobes, the mid-lobe leaflike, the other lobes narrow. Flowers with 5 petals, white to creamy-white with yellow-orange bases, sometimes partly violet or tinged with violet, each 5–10 mm long, the lower petal shortly spurred. Flowers single. Flowering: spring-autumn.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Viola~arvensis (accessed 11 February, 2021)
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