Pink Shamrock
by Terri Waters
Title
Pink Shamrock
Artist
Terri Waters
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
Pink Shamrock
Also known as wood sorrel, the pink shamrock is in the genus Oxalis and has pink flowers. Each flower has five petals and ten stamens.
True shamrocks include white clover, red clover, and black medic.
At night both the flower blooms and leaves close. There are three leaves per stem that look clover like.
Shamrocks have been symbolic of many things over the years.
According to legend, the shamrock was a sacred plant to the Druids of Ireland because its leaves formed a triad, and three was a mystical number in the Celtic religion, as in many others.
St. Patrick used the shamrock in the 5th century to illustrate the doctrine of the Holy Trinity as he introduced Christianity to Ireland.
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