PALE OR PINK CORYDALIS 



Squirrel-Corn is very like its blood-brother Diccntra 

 ciicullaria. The plants are similar in general habit and 

 appearance; the flowers of Diccntra Canadensis have 

 more rounded spurs and possess a faint fragrance. 

 The common nanie empha- 

 sizes the little round tubers 

 found at the root. Both are 

 plants of exquisite beauty, 

 native to northern wood- 

 lands, but the destruction of 

 our forests seals their fate, 

 for they are wildlings and 

 disappear before the advance 

 of civilization. 



PALE OR PINK CORYDALIS 



Corydalis senipervirens. Corydalis 

 glauca. Capnoidcs senipervirens 



The ancient Greek name, 

 from korydalos, the lark, 

 because the spur is 

 crested. 



Pale Corydalis. Corydalis 

 sempervirens 



Perennial. Rocky cliffs in 

 moist and open woods. Nova 



Scotia to Alaska, south to North Carolina, west to Min- 

 nesota. Rare in northern Ohio. April-September. 



Stem.— One to two feet high, pale green with whitish bloom. 



Leaves. — Grayish green, delicate, compounded of three 

 to five deeply cleft leaflets with their margins unevenly 

 lobed and scalloped. 



Flowers. — Pale pink and white, tipped with yellow, one- 

 half to three-fourths of an inch long, few in number, borne 

 in loose terminal racemes. 



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