Idiom Help -- March Violet

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It's in a song. I know the violet is the "birth flower" of march or whatever, but what does it mean idiomatically to be a march violet?

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 04:56 (twenty years ago)

http://www.newwavephotos.com/MarchViolets/13477MarchViolets.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 05:00 (twenty years ago)

Aha, I've found my answer on thee world wide web:

"For those who don't know it the majority of those who actually joined the National Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei (Nazis for short, for which we're all grateful) did so after Hitler became Chancellor of Germany early in 1933. They were known as March Violets because they'd waited to see which way the wind of politics was blowing before committing themselves"

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 05:31 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

I don't know if we really needed them again, but anyway: they're back! http://www.marchviolets.co.uk/

― StanM, Monday, 22 November 2010 18:22 (fourteen years ago)

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs909.snc4/72235_166320863390345_111558505533248_401465_4628953_n.jpg

― StanM, Monday, 22 November 2010 18:26 (fourteen years ago)

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