Synonyms:
myrtle, Vinca_minor
Meaning: widely cultivated as a groundcover for its dark green shiny leaves and usually blue-violet flowers
Usage examples
Betty led the way across the road to a plain little wooden church, set back in a grove of cedar-trees. Behind the church was a graveyard, where they often strolled on summer afternoons, through the tangle of grass and weeds and myrtle vines, to read the names on the tombstones and smell the pinks and lilies that struggled up year after year above the neglected mounds.