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dayflower: see spiderwort spiderwort, common name for some members of the Commelinaceae, a family of tropical and subtropical succulent herbs found especially in Africa and the Americas.
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Dayflower 

(Commelina communis), an annual herbaceous plant with dark blue flowers. The dayflower is a quarantine weed.
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Yoshida and her co-workers studied blue dayflowers, cornflowers, and salvia, which are blue despite the fact that the pigment cell sap of their petals is weakly acidic.
Blue roses may be on the way by USA Today (Magazine)
In a study of blue dayflowers, cornflowers, and salvia, the researchers also found that metal ions can interact with anthocyanin pigments to stabilize a flower's blue hue, Yoshida told Science News.
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