Color Names

Felicia

Mauve as delicate daisy petals, a lucky find.

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Felicia is a muted purple, close to mauve.

It can be described as muted, dull, matte and soft.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Felicia

Felicia

The name Felicia derives from the Latin adjective felix, meaning "happy, lucky", though in the neuter plural form felicia it literally means "happy things" and often occurred in the phrase tempora felicia, "happy times". The sense of it as a feminine personal name appeared in post-Classical use and is of uncertain origin. It is associated with saints, poets, astronomical objects, plant genera, fictional characters, and animals, especially cats.

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Felicia (plant)

Felicia is a genus of small shrubs, perennial or annual herbaceous plants, with 85 known species, that is assigned to the daisy family. Like in almost all Asteraceae, the individual flowers are 5-merous, small, and clustered in typical heads, which are surrounded by an involucre of between two and four whorls of bracts. In Felicia, the centre of the head is taken by yellow, seldom whitish or blackish blue disc florets, and is almost always surrounded by one single whorl of mostly purple, sometimes blue, pink, white, or yellow ligulate florets, and rarely, ligulate florets are absent. These florets sit on a common base and are not individually subtended by a bract. Most species occur in the Cape Floristic Region, which is probably the area where the genus originates and had most of its development. Some species can be found in the eastern half of Africa, up to Sudan and the south-western Arabian Peninsula, while on the west coast, species can be found from the Cape to Angola, with one species having outposts on the Cameroon-Nigeria border and central Nigeria. Some species of Felicia are cultivated as ornamentals, and several hybrids have been developed for that purpose.

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Felicia

Proper noun

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – various herbaceous plants, principally of southern and eastern Africa.

Proper noun

  1. A female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Felix.
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