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  2. Viola mandshurica - Wikipedia

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    Viola mandshurica is a perennial species of violet known by the common names dōng běi jǐn cài ( zh:东北堇菜) meaning 'northeastern violet' in China, jebikkot ( ko:제비꽃) meaning 'sparrow flower' in Korea, and sumire ( ja:菫, ja:スミレ) meaning 'violet' in Japan. [1] In Japan, V. mandshurica is considered to be the basic species ...

  3. Viola (plant) - Wikipedia

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    Viola is a genus of flowering plants in the violet family Violaceae. It is the largest genus in the family, containing over 680 species. Most species are found in the temperate Northern Hemisphere; however, some are also found in widely divergent areas such as Hawaii, Australasia, and the Andes. Some Viola species are perennial plants, some are ...

  4. Galanthus nivalis - Wikipedia

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    The generic name Galanthus, from the Greek gala (milk) and anthos (flower), was given to the genus by Carl Linnaeus in 1735. He described Galanthus nivalis in his Species Plantarum published in 1753. The epithet nivalis means "of the snow", referring either to the snow-like flower or the plant's early flowering. [4]

  5. What is Wisconsin's state flower? How and why was it chosen?

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    However, Wisconsin residents admired the wood violet long before it was the state's official flower, Proflowers.com says. Pictures of the flower appeared on a state stamp all the way back in 1848.

  6. Symbols of Ukrainian people - Wikipedia

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    Violet is a symbol of fun and joy, a unity of a couple, forest violets signify sorrow. Hop is a symbol of fertility, young rampage. Animalistic symbols. There are a lot of fauna symbols in Ukrainian semantics. Fauna images have universal meaning in the symbolic system of Ukrainian folklore.

  7. Galanthus - Wikipedia

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    Galanthus (from Ancient Greek γάλα, ( gála, "milk") + ἄνθος ( ánthos, "flower")), or snowdrop, is a small genus of approximately 20 species of bulbous perennial herbaceous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. The plants have two linear leaves and a single small white drooping bell-shaped flower with six petal-like ( petaloid) tepals ...

  8. Campanula rapunculoides - Wikipedia

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    The inflorescence consists of nodding spikelike racemes with numerous drooping flowers. The flowers are bright blue-violet (rarely white), 2 to 4 centimetres (0.79 to 1.57 in) long, with short petioles standing to one side in the axils of the bracts. The bracts are quite different and smaller than the leaves.

  9. Roses Are Red - Wikipedia

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    Roses Are Red. "Roses Are Red" is the name of a love poem and children's rhyme with Roud Folk Song Index number 19798. [1] It has become a cliché for Valentine's Day, and has spawned multiple humorous and parodic variants. A modern standard version is: [2]