wind-flower

By the side of the stream she was coming to me, even among the primroses, as if she loved them all; and every flower looked the brighter, as her eyes were on them, I could not see what her face was, my heart so awoke and trembled; only that her hair was flowing from a wreath of white violets, and the grace of her coming was like the appearance of the first wind-flower.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

The constant nodding of the petals stirred by even a breath of wind gives it the name of wind-flower.

The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Ellen Eddy Shaw

The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago,

The Ontario Readers Third Book Ontario. Ministry of Education

At their feet nestles the wind-flower, quite as confident of its destiny, although no sun is moderated, no shower abated for its tender sake.

The Education of American Girls Anna Callender Brackett

"The flower of Death" is the name that the Chinese give to the wind-flower -- the wood-anemone.

A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang

If she hints at "those slipshod little anemones that cannot stop to count their petals, but take one from their neighbor or leave another behind them," it is because she knows how peculiarly this fantastic variableness belongs to the rue-leaved species, so unlike the staid precision of its cousin, the wind-flower, from which not one pedestrian in a hundred can yet distinguish it.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various

The wind-flower is found in the early spring growing among dry leaves and in sunny nooks by old stone walls, sometimes in open pasture lands where the soil is damp.

Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago,

Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two Various

Pliny alludes to it, and says it was called wind-flower because it opened its petals only when the wind blew.

Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago,

Death of the Flowers 1912