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Violet is the color of light at the short wavelength end of the visible spectrum. It is one of the seven colors that Isaac Newton labeled when dividing the spectrum of visible light in 1672. Violet light has a wavelength between approximately 380 and 435 nanometers. [2] The color's name is derived from the Viola genus of flowers.
Red-Purple Color coordinates; Hex triplet: #E40078: sRGB B (r, g, b) (228, 0, 120) HSV (h, s, v) (328°, 100%, 89%) CIELCh uv (L, C, h) (49, 125, 353°) Source: Gallego and Sanz: ISCC–NBS descriptor: Vivid purplish red: B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
The flowers are violet, dark blue and occasionally white. with five petals. The fruit is a capsule10–15 mm (3 ⁄ 8 – 5 ⁄ 8 in) long, which splits into three sections at maturity to release the numerous small seeds. Its habitats include wet meadows, prairies, and fields. Symbolism. The purple violet is the provincial flower of New Brunswick.
Lamium purpureum grows with square stems to 5–20 cm [3] (rarely 30 cm) in height. The leaves have fine hairs, are green at the bottom and shade to purplish at the top; they are 2–4 cm long and broad, with a 1–2 cm petiole (leaf stalk), and wavy to serrated margins. The zygomorphic flowers are bright red-purple, with a top hood-like petal ...