heliotrope

heliotrooppi puhekieltä A plant that turns so that it faces the sun.
puhekieltä Particularly, a purple-flowered plant of the species (taxlink).
1870, (w), w:Lothair (novel)|Lothair

As they entered now, it seemed a blaze of roses and carnations, though one recognized in a moment the presence of the lily, the heliotrope, and the stock.

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... he had always smelt so much more of heliotrope than of gunpowder.

Ransacking the drawers of the dresser he came upon a discarded, tiny, ragged handkerchief. He pressed it to his face. It was racy and insolent with heliotrope; ...

Lady in a heliotrope dress with a lace collar, three flounces on the skirt?

And following that was a tortuous passage through a weird region of clay dunes, blue and violet and heliotrope and lavender, all worn smooth by rain and wind.

while still as on the night before, slouched Ahab stood fixed within his scuttle; his hid, heliotrope glance anticipatingly gone backward on its dial; sat due eastward for the earliest sun.