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total overcast. As they close, the flowers turn to liquid and may be forced to “weep” when pressed between the thumb and forefinger of inquisitive adults or children.

This forces out a drop of deeply tinted sap capable of staining fingers and clothes like ink. When a heavy dew fall? on the spiderworts, the individual dew drops hanging from spent blossoms are themselves tinted and have earned the name "widow's tears”, the cynical implication being that they dry within a day.

For plants of limited

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