On a broken-down Salvation Army table, the first piece of furniture she'd bought in California, she kept a piece of Wisconsin: a clump of birdsfoot violets, dug from the banks of the Whitewater River, and a flat of lilies-of-the-valley.

Points of interest: Mountain pansies can be purple, white, yellow or mixed.

Afternoon walk through acres of nodding arnica and narcissus - multicoloured mountain pansies underfoot and choughs overhead.

Viola lutea, also known as the mountain pansy, is a species of violet that grows in Europe, from the British Isles to the Balkans.

The moorland is dominated by wood sage, heather and bilberry, while the meadows support a range of wild flowers including mountain pansy, tormentil and harebell.

The terraces between bands of rock provided habitats for carpets of thyme, mossy saxifrage and for both the yellow and purple mountain pansies.

Viola pedata (birdsfoot violet, bird's-foot violet, or mountain pansy) is a violet native to sandy areas in eastern North America.

Having avoided the plough, the hill's steep rocky slopes still support plants such as the mountain pansy, which has long since disappeared from most of the hills in mid-Wales.

A few energetic members detoured into the quarry and found Carline Thistle, Greater Knapweed and Mountain Pansy.

Underfoot, yellow mountain pansies prettied the pasture and indicate that the lime has been leached from the land and indeed on the nearby skyline are darker acidic rocks.

Mountain Pansy Dipper Harebell 10. OLD LEAD MINES are surrounded by mounds of waste material from the mines, with very poor soil.

A different vegetation is found where there are banks that are too steep to be cut; here the calcareous soils support such species as fairy flax, Linum catharticum, harebell, Campanula rotundifolia, and mountain pansy, Viola lutea.

To balance this out and complement it further work below summit level has also aimed at restoring grasslands, rich in herbs, hay meadows, wet flushes which produce bog cotton, Heath Bedstraw and the rarer Mountain Pansy and natural woodlands.