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Mountain pansy
(Viola lutea )
The largest of the native pansies.
Sometimes purple, sometimes yellow, this is a flower of upland pastures, sheep and trout becks.
County flower of Selkirkshire.
Distribution
Hills and mountains in Wales, Scotland and northern England.
Habitat
Upland pasture.
Best time to see
Flowers from June to August.
Did you know...
The mountain pansy is likely to be the flower that Wordsworth writes of in Intimations of Immortality:
The Pansy at my feet
Doth the same tale repeat
Whither is fled the visionary gleam?
Where is it now, the glory and the dream?