Definition of Long-spurred violet

1. Noun. Violet of eastern North America having lilac-purple flowers with a long slender spur.

Exact synonyms: Viola Rostrata
Generic synonyms: Violet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Long-spurred Violet

long-play
long-playing
long-range
long-ranger
long-rangers
long-run
long-running
long-shanked
long-sighted
long-sightedness
long-since
long-snouted
long-span
long-spined bullhead
long-spined bullheads
long-spurred violet (current term)
long-standing
long-staple
long-sufferance
long-suffering
long-tail boat
long-tail boats
long-tailed
long-tailed pangolin
long-tailed porcupine
long-tailed tit
long-tailed weasel
long-term
long-term care

Literary usage of Long-spurred violet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report: New York by Otis Stuart (1904)
"Cheboygan Co., B. & K.; Keweenaw Co., OA Farwell, Gratiot Co., CA Davis. *1490. V. rostrata Pursh. long-spurred violet. Well distributed and frequent. ..."

2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The long-spurred violet (F. 1-4*1 i-¡tt<n is a rather taller plant, the spur being longer than the petals ; a species with a similar habit of growth, ..."

3. A World of Green Hills: Observations of Nature and Human Nature in the Blue by Bradford Torrey (1898)
"The long-spurred violet was new to me, and both for that reason and for itself peculiarly attractive. As I passed up the glen on the right of the brook ..."

4. The Ottawa Naturalist by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1890)
"(long-spurred violet.) Governor-General's Bay, New Edinburgh. Ju.—1. 242. V. CANADENSIS, L. (Canada Violet.) Rich woods. A charming species, flowering in ..."

5. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"... A.Gray Kidney-leaved white violet Herbaceous perennial Wooded swamps and cool, wooded slopes. Viola rostrata Pursh long-spurred violet ..."

6. Michigan Flora: A List of the Fern and Seed Plants Growing Without Cultivation by William James Beal (1904)
"long-spurred violet. Well distributed and frequent. Alma, Ann Arbor, CA Davis. C. & S. 1491. V. rotundifolia Michx. Round-leaved Violet. ..."

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