Better known as the Field Pansy, this tiny inhabitant of both cultivated and waste land is traditionally recognized (along with the Wild Pansy) as a symbol of remembrance and its name is said to derive from the French word “pensee”, meaning “thought”.If possible, I like to leave either a Field or a Wild Pansy together with a wild Common Poppy on any wartime commemorative monument I happen across when I’m out and about, though if people see me doing it, they often ask about the significance of the Pansy.Interestingly, both Field and Wild Pansies are also associated with love….hence the more colloquial names of “Heartsease”, “Love-in-Idleness” and “Kiss-Me-Quick” ascribed at times to one or the other and given to them no doubt by the hopelessly love-lorn in days gone by.