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AMERICAN HOXEY PLANTS 



as an urnamental and has escaped and become naturalized in waste places, 

 eld fields and along fences everywhere. It is probably not important to the 

 beekeeper anywhere, but Richter lists it as a honey plant at Sacramento, 

 California, and SchoU lists it as yielding some honey and pollen in Texas. 

 At Victoria, Texas, according to M. B. Talley, morning glory yields 

 surplus honey of fine quality in September. There it is called tievine. 



MOTHERWORT (Leonurus Cardiaca). 



The common motherwort is a weed introduced from Europe and 

 Northern Asia. It is now quite generally naturalized from Canada to 

 Florida and west to Louisiana. For some reason, it is seldom included in 

 lists of honey plants, although it is said to be an excellent source of nec- 

 tar. Reports of bees working on this plant very freely, in 1914, when 

 most other plants failed to yield anything, were frequent. 



The motherwort grows in clumps in waste places in old barn lots, 

 along railroads, in factory grounds, etc. It grows from two to six feet 

 high, with small flower clusters in the axils of the leaves. It is a relative 

 of the catnip, and apparently equally attractive to the bees. This plant 



ig. O'l. Clump of motherwort in barnyard. 



