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A blue flower (German: Blaue Blume) was a central symbol of inspiration for the Romanticism movement, and remains an enduring motif in Western art today. [1] It stands for desire , love , and the metaphysical striving for the infinite and unreachable.
The Blue Flower is the final novel by the British author Penelope Fitzgerald, published in 1995. It is a fictional treatment of the early life and troubled relationships of Friedrich von Hardenberg who, under the pseudonym Novalis , became a foundational figure of German Romanticism .
Aster alpinus, the alpine aster or blue alpine daisy, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to the mountains of Europe (including the Alps), with a subspecies native to Canada and the United States. [3] This herbaceous perennial has purple, pink, white or blue flowers in summer. [4]
The flower buds are pink in color, [7] while the flowers are very often a pale sky-blue, but may also be nearly white or a deep blue color. [8] The united tube of the flower is 3–7 millimeters in length. [4] The inflorescence is dense with flowers, but is more widely spaced as it becomes older, paniculate in character. [8]
H. hispanica has paler flowers produced on all sides of the upright stem, less recurved petals and blue pollen. Hyacinthoides non-scripta is a perennial plant that grows from a bulb . [ 8 ] It produces 3–6 linear leaves, all growing from the base of the plant, and each 7–16 millimetres (0.28–0.63 in) wide. [ 11 ]
Meconopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the poppy family Papaveraceae.It was created by French botanist Viguier in 1814 for the species known by the common name Welsh poppy, which Carl Linnaeus had described as Papaver cambricum. [2]
Ceanothus thyrsiflorus can grow more than 6 metres (20 feet) tall and broad in its native chaparral habitat, with glossy green leaves.The clusters of tiny flowers, borne in spring, vary from different shades of blue to close to white. [2]
Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds.