periwinkle

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She cited aspirin drawing on formulations using willow tree bark, contraceptive pills developed from yam plant roots and child cancer treatments based on Madagascar's rosy periwinkle flower.

From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025

She said the rivers and ponds used to brim with all kinds of animals and fish, particularly periwinkle.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2025

At the Center for Natural Lands Management’s Violet Prairie native seed farm in Thurston County, row after row of periwinkle, yellow and pink flowers stretch across 5 acres.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2023

Last year, the color forecasters at Pantone were so hopeful about the new year, they chose an uplifting shade of periwinkle blue as its 2022 Color of the Year.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2022

Mrs. Murphy gives me something new nearly every day—a skirt she says she found in a closet, a woolen hat, a camel-colored coat, a periwinkle scarf and matching mittens.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline