Heartsease, or Field Pansy, is a small delicate annual. The flowers are a cream colour with a yellow and orange tinge. The leaves vary from oval to narrow. It is an exquisite flower and appears, though infrequently, in ploughed land all over Ireland, but is not a serious weed.

The flowers start blooming in April and can continue until the autumn.

Heartsease is common throughout most of Europe, western Asia, North Africa and Madeira.

From the Appletree Press title: Irish Wild Flowers.
Also from Appletree: A Little Book of Garden Flowers .

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