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Blue flag iris, the floral emblem of Quebec since 1999. It was chosen because it blooms around the time of Quebec's Fête nationale. [1] [2] The snowy owl, the avian emblem of Quebec since 1987. It was selected by the Québécois government to symbolize Quebec's winters and northern climate. [1] [3] The yellow birch, the tree emblem of Quebec ...
Lucie Blue Tremblay (born 1958 in Montreal) is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter. Tremblay started performing when she was still a child, accompanying her mother's five-piece band as a drummer. Later, she taught herself how to play the guitar, followed by the piano.
Aged Canadian whisky. The modern Canadian distilling industry produces a variety of spirits (e.g. whisky, rum, vodka, gin, liqueurs, spirit coolers, and basic ethyl alcohol), but Canada's primary reputation, domestically and internationally, remains for the production of Canadian whisky, a distinctive rye-flavoured, high quality whisky.
The first recorded use of the word lavender as a color term in English was in 1705. [5]Originally, the name lavender only applied to flowers. By 1930, the book A Dictionary of Color [6] identified three major shades of lavender—[floral] lavender, lavender gray, and lavender blue, and in addition a fourth shade of lavender called old lavender (a darker lavender gray) (all four of these shades ...
Lavandula (common name lavender) is a genus of 47 known species of perennial flowering plants in the mints family, Lamiaceae. [1] It is native to the Old World, primarily found across the drier, warmer regions of mainland Eurasia, with an affinity for maritime breezes.
Periwinkle is a color in the blue and violet family. Its name is derived from the lesser periwinkle or myrtle herb ( Vinca minor ) which bears flowers of the same color. The color periwinkle is also called lavender blue and light blue violet . [ 2 ]
Dampiera lavandulacea is an upright or ascending perennial to 70 cm (28 in) high with ribbed, smooth stems. The leaves are sessile, 9–21 mm (0.35–0.83 in) long, 2–11 mm (0.079–0.433 in) wide, oblong to elliptic shaped, rolled under, smooth on upper surface and densely covered with white, short, matted hairs on the lower surface, margins smooth or occasionally with a few teeth, 9–21 ...
The color of the flowers is variously described as pale lavender, pale blue-violet, blue-lavender, or light purplish. [5] [6] The outside of the flower is hairless, but the top interior of the tube is covered in white hairs. The staminode does not reach out of the flower opening and is sparsely to densely covered in yellow hairs. [7]