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erroneously called "Dog's tooth Violets." The name here giren is 

 so appropriate that it should replace the other ugly and inap- 

 propriate one.) 



IV. Grass-like plants, with terminal clusters of very small, chaffy, 



yellow flowers Early Sedges ( Carex) 



V. Lo'rt^ plants with heart-shaped leaves, and single nodding, hooded 



blue or purple flowers Violets (.Viola) 



VI. Low plants with compound leaves with many small leaflets, and 



clusters of irregular purple flowers Buffalo Peas (Astragalus) 



(Later in the spring these plants produce thick edible plum-like 

 pods, which have given them the additional name of "Ground 

 Plums.") 



B. Very Early Lawn Flowers. 



I. Small plants, with very small white flowers in terminal clusters, 



Shepherd's Purse (Capsella) 



(Later in the season these plants may gi'ow to be a foot or so 



high and wide, scarcely resembling the small plants of early spring.) 



II. Plants with jagged leaves, and large yellow flowers. 



Dandelions (Taraxacum) 

 (These may blossom more or less continuously all summer long, 

 even until late in the year.) 



C. Flowers White. 



I. Flowers irregular, that is not with regular whorled petals of equal 



size 

 1. Low plants, with bisaccate flowers, hanging in elongated clusters, 



Dutchman's Breeches (Dicentra) 

 (Found only in the forests of eastern Nebraska.) 



II. Flowers regular, rather large, 1 inch or more across. 



1. Low plants, 5 to 10 inches high. 



a. Juice red-milky; flower single Bloodroot (Sanguinaria) 



6. Juice not milky. 



i. Stem wanting; leaves radical; flowers clustered. 



Strawberries (Fragarid) 

 (Grow wild all over the prairies.) 

 ii. Stem erect, with a whorl of 3 leaves, bearing a single central 



flower Early Wake Robin (Trillium) 



(Only in extreme eastern Nebraska.) 



2. Taller plants, a foot or so high. 



a. Flowers with corolla-like calyx and no true corolla, 



Anemony (Anemone) 



3. Large plants, 2 to 4 feet high, with long sharp leaves. 



Dagger-weed (Yucca) 



(In central and western Nebraska, where it is known as Soap- 

 weed.) 



III. Flowers regular, small, clustered. 



1. Low shrubs with pyramidal flower clusters. 



New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus) 



