Terminology for a plant with white flowers when normally they are of other coloration

[DianaStuder]

Came up on another thread about colours. sedgequeen is a working botanist.

@sedgequeen

In many other cases, one color morph is standard and the others are rare, such as the white and pink morphs of normally blue chicory (Cichorium intybus). In this case there probably is strong selection against the odd colors because pollinators use the color to find the flowers. If bees learn that blue chicory flowers are good, they go from blue flower to blue flower and tend to ignore the white and pink flowers, which therefore don’t set as much seed.