Tag: wild flowers

Viola tricolor

When reading about this common wild flower on Wikipedia I found that this plant has lots of different names:

  • wild pansy
  • Jonny Jump up (also the name of yellow pansy)
  • hearts ease
  • hearts delight
  • tickle-my-fancy
  • Jack-jump-up-and-kiss-me
  • come-and-cuddle-me
  • three faces in a hood
  • love-in-idleness
  • pink of my john

Why all these different names I don’t know, these names was listed in the English translation of Wikipedia. In Norway the common name for these flowers is “night-and-day” or “flower of the stepmother”. I think the Latin name, Viola tricolor, suits this beautiful flower best.

Viola tricolor