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Description : When the flowers are fresher, they've got a purple shading to their top edges, and they've always got a yellow throat. This specimen is fairly bushy, but it seems to get by among grass that's mowed. The flowers are small, less than half an inch.

Thanks to M. K. Ramm for identifying this, since both Peterson's guide and the Audubon one let me down here. As best I can tell from the web, there's considerably showier variants that are cultivated, which may be why I had so much trouble.

Common Name : Wild Pansy
Latin Name : Viola tricolor
Location : The train tracks near Fort Washington Park, Cambridge MA
Date : 2002-06-08
Event : A Walk along the train tracks, Cambridge MA
 
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