DCHP-1 Online
crocus West 
n. the pasque flower, Anemone patens.
See also: prairie crocus prairie smoke sandflower windflower
- 1893 Behold a pleasant landscape aglow with April sun. . . . Where purple crocus blows and downy willows wave.
- 1961 You . . . can look at the crocuses and they're purple, not out-and-out purple, but not blue either.
- 1893 Behold a pleasant landscape aglow with April sun. . . . Where purple crocus blows and downy willows wave.