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Patersonia sericea, commonly known as purple flag [2] or silky purple-flag [3] is a species of plant in the iris family Iridaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a densely-tufted perennial herb with linear, sword-shaped leaves, broadly egg-shaped, bluish-violet tepals and an oval capsule .
Patersonia occidentalis, commonly known as purple flag, [2] or long purple-flag, [3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae and is endemic to southern Australia. It is a tufted, rhizome -forming perennial with narrow, sharply-pointed, strap-like leaves, egg-shaped, bluish violet sepals and a cylindrical capsule .
In the modern era, synthetic purple dyes became easier to obtain, and flags with the color purple began being used more commonly. In 1931, the Second Spanish Republic established a tricolor flag consisting of red, yellow and purple stripes as its national flag , seeing use in Spain until 1939 and by the Spanish Republican government in exile ...
Sweet gum is a native shade tree that has glossy green leaves with five lobes, similar to a sugar maple. Fall color can be quite dramatic, with a combination of yellows, reds, and purples.
The wampum belt was a symbol of unity between the five (and later six) tribes for hundreds of years prior to its adaptation for use as a flag. [3] Purple is considered "the color of the Iroquois", as it is the color derived from the mollusk shells used in making the wampum. [2] The four squares and one tree each represent one of the original ...
Patersonia glabrata is a perennial herb or subshrub that typically grows to a height of 30–80 cm (12–31 in) with a few woody stems. The leaves are linear, 100–400 mm (3.9–15.7 in) long, 2–4 mm (0.079–0.157 in) wide and glabrous apart from minute hairs on near the edges of the leaf base.
Grimace is in his baseball era!. Amid the New York baseball team's winning record — which began on the night the beloved McDonald's mascot threw out the first pitch at Citi Field on June 12 ...
Iris versicolor or Iris versicolour is also commonly known as the blue flag, harlequin blueflag, larger blue flag, northern blue flag, [2] and poison flag, plus other variations of these names, [3] [4] and in Great Britain and Ireland as purple iris. [5] It is a species of Iris native to North America, in the Eastern United States and Eastern ...