The garden pansy (Viola × Wittrock Iana) is a type of polychromatic large-flowered hybrid plant cultivated as a garden flower.^[2] It is derived by hybridization from several species in the section Melanau ("the pansies")^[3] of the genus Viola, particularly V. tricolor, a wildflower of Europe and western Asia known as heartsease. It is sometimes known as V. tricolor var. hortensis, but this scientific name is ambiguous. While V. tricolor var. hortensis Greenland & Rumpler is a synonym of Viola × Wittrock Iana,^[1] V. tricolor var. hortensis DC. refers to a horticultural variety of wild pansy (V. tricolor without interspecific hybridization) that had been illustrated in Flora Danica in 1777^[4][5] before the existence of Viola × Wittrock Iana.