Filomena Gómez

Filomena Gómez de Cova was a Dominican militant who participated in the Dominican War of Independence. Gómez, born into a long-established Dominican family, was a woman with broader horizons than other women of her time. Gómez brought Gardenia jasminoides plants from Venezuela, whose white flower served as a Duartian symbol in the hair of Dominican women and in the buttonhole on the chest of the heroes in the days of the Trinitarios. "Filorios" was the derogatory nickname given to the Trinitario