Can I grow field pansies as regular flowers?

So I found this bush of some kind of pansy, and I looked it up and I believe it to be a field pansy... Can I grow it in my flower bed or is it still a weed? Thanks,


-ur not so green thumbed person

Can I grow field pansies as regular flowers?
You can grow field pansies in a flower bed, if you don't mind them spreading.





It's considered a weed by people who don't want it taking over their gardens...which is something it's good at doing. Seed capsules split open in dry weather, throwing large numbers of small brown seeds some distance from the plant. Each seed capsule contains around 75 seeds and a plant may produce 1,500 to 2,500 seeds.


http://www.hort.uconn.edu/ipm/fruit/htms...


http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/organicw...





You can also just let them grow in their own space ...where you wouldn't have to keep them in check... since they do look nice. I was fascinated to see volunteer field pansies growing beautifully in drifts in a wooded area that I had spread leaves around (because I didn't want to mow around the huge roots of the trees). Field pansies are useful, too, since they have edible leaves and flowers which are rich in vitamin C.





Thought you'd like some photos of field pansies:


http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/im...


http://www.nearctica.com/flowers/viola/V...





Good luck!!! Hope this helps.
Reply:a whole bunch of pansies just "showed up" at my house last year and i had like 20 plants.. i dug them all up and planted them in my garden and just places they can grow wildly. now theres a lot of them.. and they've created new colours. theres a lot of pansies but if you dont mind having a lot, transplant them.. there easy and none of mine died from the transplant.