our meadow under the trees. It is a spring ephemeral plant in the Boraginaceae (borage) family with bell-shaped sky-blue flowers, native to eastern North America. Borage is the family of forget-me-nots. This bluebell is also called Virginia cowslip and lungwort oysterleaf. Who knew? It was first described by Linnaeus in 1753 as Pulmonaria virginica.
Virginia bluebells have rounded (ovate) and gray-green leaves which are long and smooth along their margins, petiolate at the bottom of the flower and sessile at the top.The inflorescence is a nodding group of flowers located at the end of the arched stems.The flowers have 5 shallow lobes fused into a tube at the base of the flower, five stamens , and a central pistil. Both the flowers and the leaves are edible.
The flower buds are pink, and the opened flowers are usually light blue.
There is also a rare white form.
why from this her and him
did you and i climb
(crazily kissing) til
into themselves we fell --
how have all time and space
bowed to immortal us
if in one little bed
she and he lie (undead)
eecummings
[Please explain that one to me.]
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