johnny-jump-ups

“I planted some johnny-jump-ups last night with just that color in them.”

At the Mauve Café.

“I'd seek the hayfields whose perfume the jaded heart doth nourish, I'd go where wayside roses bloom and johnny-jump-ups flourish.”

Rippling Rhymes

“That there are lurking beauties, however, peeping shyly out like johnny-jump-ups and wild raspberry blossoms, there appears to be some evidence on the jacket.”

Tutors' Lane

“She knows that you can eat johnny-jump-ups and rose petals.”

mama urchin

“They read what the fingers scribbled, who the land belongs to now—it is herein provided, it is hereby stipulated—the land and all appurtenances thereto and all deposits of oil and gold and coal and silver, and all pockets and repositories of gravel and diamonds, dung and permanganese, and all clover and bumblebees, all bluegrass, johnny-jump-ups, grassroots, springs of running water or rivers or lakes or high spreading trees or hazel bushes or sumach or thorn-apple branches or high in the air the bird nest with spotted blue eggs shaken in the roaming wind of the treetops—”

Yes, the Dead Speak to Us. IV. Playthings of the Wind