Here they are in the same photo:<\/p>\n
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This isn’t a mere “you say tomato, I say tomAHto” affair.\u00a0With plants, the flower is the key to identity, and color is the first thing you notice about a\u00a0flower. So we ought to find some way to agreement on what “blue” is and what “purple” is.<\/p>\n
It shouldn’t be as difficult as, say, trying to nominate a presidential candidate.<\/p>\n
Some plant sites try to skirt this issue by saying there’s a “range” of color from blue to purple. Nice try. Show me a blue iris.<\/p>\n
Of course, you may also run into a dwarf crested iris that is a light color. This would be lavender … not pale blue.<\/p>\n
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Another site calls the color of the flowers “blue-lilac.” I suppose\u00a0that color tag might suit a hydrangea, which looks like it’s made out of plastic anyhow.<\/p>\n
But a crested iris?<\/p>\n
An amethyst<\/a> is purple. The sky is blue. These are not that hard to tell apart.<\/p>\n The dwarf-crested iris is PURPLE. Or lavender.<\/p>\n The violet is PURPLE. Or lavender.<\/p>\n And yes, even blue<\/em>-eyed grass is PURPLE:<\/p>\n Long ago, at my first newsroom job, a colleague said to me, “Geez, you’re kind of argumentative<\/a>.”<\/p>\n I turned on him and said, “WHAT?!! I’M NOT\u00a0argumentative<\/em>!”<\/p>\n Today’s penny is a 1981, the first time I was accused of being argumentative. Not the last, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do\u00a0these\u00a0flowers look blue to you? Well, I don’t think so. It’s purple to me. My guidebook calls it “blue.” But then, my guidebook also calls violets “blue.” Um, hello? “Violet” is a color as well as a plant name, and it’s not a synonym for any other color except purple. Here they are in the … read more Blue to you<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321],"tags":[23,574,355,157,847,174,593],"class_list":["post-8204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tress","tag-23","tag-blue","tag-color","tag-flowers","tag-lavender","tag-plants","tag-purple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8204"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8275,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8204\/revisions\/8275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"blue-eyed](\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_5966-300x200.jpg\")
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