noun
- plants of the genus Commelina having three-petaled flowers that typically open in the morning and close by afternoon
Usage: botanical
Examples
- The blue dayflowers bloomed brightly in the morning sun.
- Dayflowers are common weeds in many gardens.
- The botanist studied various species of dayflowers in the field.
- These dayflowers will close their petals by noon.
- Wild dayflowers grew along the forest path.
- The gardener removed the invasive dayflowers from the flower bed.