I was, after all, interfering with the violet's natural intentions – to turn from flower to seed and seed to future generations. In the big outdoors, it would have fulfilled itself just fine.

According to the Wisconsin Blue Book, school children in 1908 nominated four candidates for the state flower: the wood violet, wild rose, trailing arbutus and white water lily.

Her lush symbolism of violets and other purple flowers has persisted through the years, ... The rose was the flower of Eros, the Greco-Roman god of passion and erotic love.

Everyone knows how the lyric begins: "Roses are red, violets are blue …" This poetic reference could be directly applied to the western Montana blue violet, which occurs widely in ...

Her lush symbolism of violets and other purple flowers has persisted through the years, ... The rose was the flower of Eros, the Greco-Roman god of passion and erotic love.