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Definition of Canada violet
1. Noun. Tall North American perennial with heart-shaped leaves and white flowers with purple streaks.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canada Violet
Literary usage of Canada violet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mountain Wild Flowers of Canada: A Simple and Popular Guide to the Names and by Julia Wilmotte Henshaw (1906)
"Canada violet Viola Canadensis. Violet Family Stems: glabrous, six inches to two
feet ... The Canada violet continues to bloom from June until September. ..."
2. Bog-trotting for Orchids by Grace Greylock Niles (1904)
"It is delicately fragrant, although not so sweet-scented as the Canada violet (
Viola Canadensis) growing northward as well as southward along mountainside ..."
3. Wake-robin by John Burroughs (1904)
"The only species which are uniformly fragrant are the tall Canada violet, so
common in our ... The Canada violet very frequently blooms in the fall, ..."
4. Wild Flowers of the North American Mountains by Julia W. Henshaw (1915)
"Canada violet Viola canadensis. Violet Family Stems: glabrous, six inches to two
feet ... The Canada violet continues to bloom from June until September. ..."
5. Mountain Wild Flowers of America: A Simple and Popular Guide to the Names by Julia W. Henshaw (1906)
"Then, also, the leaves differ : those of the Shepherd's Purse are deeply cut,
and those of the Penny- cress are only slightly toothed. Canada violet ..."
6. The Ottawa Naturalist by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1904)
"Thus the strawberry, being a perennial, and the Canada violet, protected by the
thick snowy garment, acting probably as a winter ..."
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