The garden flowers of the central U.S. are mostly not native.
The garden store was robbed: it was a violet crime.
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Many typical garden flowers are from Europe, grown by Europeans for hundreds of years. Examples of these are bachelor buttons (
Centaurea cyanus also called cornflower), daffodils (
Narcissus many species), and pinks and carnations (
Dianthus many species). And violets. Violets are native all across the world, but the cultivated ones are almost all European. That includes pansies (
Viola tricolor) johnny-jump-ups (
Viola cornuta), the sweet violet (
Viola odorata) and others.