One of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas. Synonyms:Eustoma grandiflorum, prairie gentian, tulip gentian.
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Perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers. Synonyms:Campanula rotundifolia, harebell.
... trained and formed, but no one would understand that. People do not expect the perfume of the rose in a wild strawberry blossom, or the fragrance of the heliotrope in a common bluebell. Yet they wondered that in this simple girl, ignorant of the world and it ways, they did not find a cultivated mind, a graceful manner, and a dignified carriage. Their only thought was to train and form her, whereas Nature and not Art ... — Dora Thorne • Charlotte M. Braeme Read full book for free!
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