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A small five-petalled flower carved on a memorial.
Also known as: Small blue flower on a grave
A small blue flower whose English name states its meaning. Unusually among floral motifs the association needs no interpretive apparatus at all — the name is the message — which is also why it was adopted by later remembrance campaigns.
A small five-petalled flower carved or planted at graves and memorials, whose English name — forget-me-not — states the commemorative sense directly.
Contexts: History
One of the few floral motifs whose funerary association requires no interpretive apparatus, since the name carries the meaning in the language of the people using it.
Adopted in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by several remembrance campaigns, including as an emblem for dementia awareness and for particular national commemorations — modern adoptions of an older association.
A small flower of five rounded petals arranged around a small circular centre, carved in clusters on a slender stem.