crocus

West

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the pasque flower, Anemone patens.

Quotations

1893

Behold a pleasant landscape aglow with April sun. . . . Where purple crocus blows and downy willows wave.

1961

You . . . can look at the crocuses and they're purple, not out-and-out purple, but not blue either.