Little Purple Flower
 

What are these little tiny purple flowers that come up in your yard in spring. Leetle, teensy, things, about the size of your thumb. I've heard them called wild violets, but, I've also heard them called some kind of pansy. They do look kinda pansy-ish. But, also sorta violet-ish. What are they, anyone know?

I think they're violets. Pansies are rounder.

google images for violets:

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&s...=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Violets. And they're tasty.

Ooh!
We get something quite similar!

Really teeny-tiny things compared to garden centre bought pansies or even violas. At school we called them forget-me-nots. But at the age I'm talking about, one person would say something with conviction and the rest of us took it as gospel. They grew all over the school playing field for about 5 days every Spring anyway.

ETA - I think what you have are violas, and I hazard a guess they're Viola riviniana or the common dog violet. I'm still searching for the ones I was talking about.

Thanx! I knew you folks were good for something.

Who'd a thunk?

Just make sure the dog hasn't pee'd there for a while. :yeldead:

forget-me-nots are a totally different thing.

http://www.tonyhowell.co.uk/ForgetMeNot.jpg

btw, everyone's right -wild violets here, violas in the UK; lawn pest here, not so in UK; and pansies are also in the viola family

We've got zillions of wild violets in our yard. You know what? They a fuckload prettier than grass.

They look like a viola.

she said vulva....mmmm huh huh.

No but I probably said Virginia once when I was about 5.

oh ,,,and I didn't look!

I found we had them too!
From our back garden. I didn't even question them, thinking they were too pretty to be wild. Then again, they're not on our lawn precisely. Oddly, now I'm aware of them I see them everywhere.

Second pic is what we actually called forget-me-nots. I'm pretty sure they're the same as Mons posted - I think so, just that ours don't have as many flowers on them.

Looking at the two I can't believe I confused them. Still, the past is a foreign country and we've sealed our borders for now.

But here are some new contenders.
Not a great pic, but it'll have to da ya.
I don't know where to start in looking them up (unlike the violets, where I was confirming a suspicion)

They're on a spike, as oppsed to being ground cover.