Categories DavidHeartsease flowering Post author By David Post date 10 July 2015 Heartsease, the wild ancestor of pansies. These were growing on a patch of rough ground in Compton Park, but in such close association with a large number of other species of “wildflower” that the seeds may have come from a packet. ← Broad bodied chaser flying, Baggeridge → Rabbits in short grass