marsh violet

noun

marsh violet

noun

1

A violet of species Viola palustris, that grows in marshes and bogland.

I can find marsh violets an inch high, pale pink and lace white with stamens as fine as fishing line and tiny petals stained by blood-dark veins.2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 86:

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