Literary notes about Veronica (AI summary)
In a number of literary passages, authors use "veronica" not just as a botanical name but as a subtle evocation of a natural, understated color. For example, in one passage a bed of veronica flowers—whose soft, blue-to-violet hues complement the ancient apple tree they border—helps create a vibrant yet delicate landscape ([1]). Elsewhere, veronica appears alongside heliotrope when the narrator recalls past playful rituals, its mention conjuring the gentle, floral tint that colors the memory ([2]). In taxonomic lists where veronica is grouped with other plants, the name carries with it an inherent visual quality that readers can almost see rendered in nature's palette ([3]).
- This bed of veronica at the foot of the ancient apple has a whole handful of flowers, and yet they do not weary the eye.
— from The Life of the Fields by Richard Jefferies - I ceased to stick sprigs of heliotrope and veronica into the mouth of my rocking-horse.
— from The Bed-Book of Happiness Being a colligation or assemblage of cheerful writings brought together from many quarters into this one compass for the diversion, distraction, and delight of those who lie abed,—a friend to the invalid, a companion to the sleepless, an excuse to the tired by Harold Begbie - They are Alchymilla or Lion's-Foot, Ground-Ivy, Veronica or Fluellin, St. John 's-Wort, Wormwood, Centory, Bugle, Sanicle, Chervil, and others.
— from The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by M. (Charles Gabriel) Le Clerc
