four-petaled

The four-petaled flowers are about 3 inches across and bloom for a single day or two and close up shortly after the first direct sunlight shines down upon them, opening again in the evening.

Wildflowers in Winter -- the Gumbo Lily Gumbo Lily 2008

The four-petaled flowers are about 3 inches across and bloom for a single day or two and close up shortly after the first direct sunlight shines down upon them, opening again in the evening.

Archive 2008-01-01 Gumbo Lily 2008

Cecilia J. used to read "The Wizard of Oz," and drew a four-petaled flower on page 27.

Tracking Another Hurricane, Busy Counting Backwards the Magic Number Quickies 2005

Cecilia J. used to read "The Wizard of Oz," and drew a four-petaled flower on page 27.

September 2005 2005

A sigil was carved into the handle, the four-petaled mark of Ushara, the Merciless One, the Devourer, mistress of life, death, and desire.

Spirit Gate 2006

They know that much from the Remington plastic four-petaled Power Piston wad that Scarpetta recovered from the inside of Daggie Simister's devastated head.

Predator Cornwell, Patricia 2005

The plant may at once be recognized by the heart-shaped pods and small, white, four-petaled flowers.

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

When in blossom, the plant is from twelve to fifteen inches in height; the flowers are small, white, and four-petaled; the seeds are small, of a reddish-brown color, and retain their vitality five years.

The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. Fearing Burr

Tolerance, gratitude, appreciation blossomed frailly; and over all there spread, like those hosts of four-petaled flowers we used to call bluets, which grew in such abundance among rarer violets or wild strawberry -- there spread through Ruth's awakened nature a thousand and one little kindly impulses that had to do with smiles for servants, kind words for old people, and courtesy to clerks in shops.

The Fifth Wheel A Novel Olive Higgins Prouty 1928

The four-petaled flowers, -- the cross-bearers, -- were never poisonous, and many of them, as mustard and cabbage, were valuable for food or medicine.

Masters of the Guild L. Lamprey 1910