A Day for Pansies
by Randi Grace Nilsberg
Title
A Day for Pansies
Artist
Randi Grace Nilsberg
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
In Norway we call these flowers stepmother flowers. The name is also used in several other European languages (including German). The plant has received its Norwegian name by its looks. If one carefully studies the flower you can see that the two upper petals are slightly overlapping and that they are only fastened together in one area (a chair). Previously, such a pair of petals was often compared to two step-daughters who had to sit together on the same chair and had to wear only blue. The two middle (and lateral) petals are the true daughters who wore nicer clothes and they got to sit on one chair each (each petal). At the bottom is the stepmotherwho even has a yellow, beautiful dress (the fifth and last petal). The latin name means tricolor.
Another common name is "Day and Night!. This name comes from the colors, the bright (yellow) is the day. and at the bottom of the dark is purple, the night.
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June 18th, 2016
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