A North American woodland plant of the borage family, bearing nodding, trumpet-shaped blue flowers.
Mertensia virginica, family Boraginaceae
Also called Virginia cowslip
Example sentencesExamples
- As the foliage of Virginia bluebells goes dormant in summer it will be covered by the hosta or fern leaves.
- Spring ephemerals like Virginia bluebells are designed to come up and bloom early before the shade from deciduous trees gets too heavy.
- You can fill in between the plants with daffodils, Virginia bluebells, or annuals.
- You may even have the earliest-blooming flowers such as the Virginia bluebell bloom before the shrubs are in leaf.
- We noticed a delicate fragrance on the breeze and looked down a steep slope toward the stream bottom and a sea of celestial blue Virginia bluebells.