But who, may you ask, was Queen Anne to have it named in her honor? Did she really have beautiful lace?
I haven't a clue.
Here's a bit of thought that might be more soothing.
We can choose to start over in this very moment,
there is no need to wait for a new year or a new month or a new week.
I bet someone out there is looking it up on the internet.
ReplyDeleteWell, not a lot of answers forthcoming, so I chased this down on Wikipedia..."Both Anne, Queen of Great Britain, and her great grandmother Anne of Denmark are taken to be the Queen Anne for which the plant is named.[8] It is so called because the flower resembles lace; the red flower in the center is thought to represent a blood droplet where Queen Anne pricked herself with a needle when she was making the lace. The function of the tiny red flower, coloured by anthocyanin, is to attract insects.
ReplyDeleteI knew about Queen Anne of England (Blackbeard had a ship called Queen Anne's Revenge) but I didn't know about the red flower -- accounting for all the insects that usually cover the flower. Cool!
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