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Bluebell

noun

Sometimes placed in genus Scilla. Synonyms: harebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta, wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth.

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.

Perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers. Synonyms: Campanula rotundifolia, harebell.

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"Bluebell" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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

Words linked to "Bluebell" : Hyacinthoides, bellflower, Scilla nonscripta, wild flower, liliaceous plant, wildflower, campanula, genus Eustoma, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, genus Hyacinthoides, Eustoma