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  2. Viola sororia - Wikipedia

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    Viola sororia ( / vaɪˈoʊlə səˈrɔːriə / vy-OH-lə sə-ROR-ee-ə ), [ 5] known commonly as the common blue violet, is a short-stemmed herbaceous perennial plant native to eastern North America. It is known by a number of common names, including common meadow violet, purple violet, woolly blue violet, hooded violet, and wood violet.

  3. Viola cucullata - Wikipedia

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    The purple violet is a low-growing perennial herbaceous plant up to 20 cm (8 in) tall. The leaves form a basal cluster; they are simple, up to 10 cm (4 in) broad, with an entire margin and a long petiole. The flowers are violet, dark blue and occasionally white. with five petals. The fruit is a capsule 10–15 mm ( – in) long, which splits ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. List of Illinois state symbols - Wikipedia

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    "Illinois" 5 ILCS 460/35 1925 [9] Tartan Illinois Saint Andrew Society Tartan 5 ILCS 460/95 2012 [1] Theatre The Great American People Show: 5 ILCS 460/70 1995 [1] Tree: White oak (Quercus alba) (replaced "Native Oak" adopted in 1908) 5 ILCS 460/40 1973 [2] [3] Vegetable: Sweet corn: 5 ILCS 460/56 2015 [1] Wildflower: Milkweed (Asclepias spp ...

  6. Viola appalachiensis - Wikipedia

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    Viola allegheniensis L.K. Henry 1953, illegitimate homonym not Roem. & Schult. 1819. Viola walteri var. appalachiensis (L.K. Henry) L.E. McKinney. Viola appalachiensis, the Appalachian blue violet, also known as Appalachian violet and Henry's violet is a Viola native to the Appalachian Mountains in the Eastern United States. [2] [3]

  7. Ionized-air glow - Wikipedia

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    Ionized-air glow. Nitrogen glow. Oxygen glow. Electrical discharge in air. Particle beam from a cyclotron. Ionized-air glow is the luminescent emission of characteristic bluepurpleviolet light, often of a color called electric blue, by air subjected to an energy flux either directly or indirectly from solar radiation. [ 1]

  8. Hail to the Orange - Wikipedia

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    Published. 1915. "Hail to the Orange" (along with "Illinois Loyalty") is the alma mater of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Its alternate version, "Hail to the Purple," is an official song of the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon. The song was written in 1910 by two students: Harold Vater Hill, credited with the music, and Howard ...

  9. Gilia tricolor - Wikipedia

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    Flowers have 5 green sepals and 5 bell-shaped fused petals, which are blue-violet at the end, descending to purple spots over yellow throats, hence the three for "tri". [ 1 ] Human uses