AMERICAN WILD FLOWERS 



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another European species which has made itself at home in waste 

 places. Wild candytuft or rockcress, a plant especially abun- 

 dant in the prairie states and on western mountain slopes, has 

 white, yellow, pink or purple flowers in terminal or axillary 

 clusters. Sea rocket is a bushy plant common to both the Pacific 

 and Atlantic coasts; the fleshy stems produce lobed leaves and 

 clusters of purple or white flowers. The prairie rocket is a yel- 

 low- or brown-flowered species found on the central plains. 



Fig. 265. — The Mustard Family includes toothwort 



moonwort (C). 



rocket 



and 



The most attractive flowers of the Mustard Family are tooth- 

 wort, crinkleroot and wall flower. Toothwort has compound 

 leaves and a terminal cluster of relatively large white flowers; it 

 grows in moist woodlands of the eastern states. Crinkleroot, 

 found in the same area, has fewer flowers which are usually 

 white or pink and borne in a cluster above a pair of lobed leaves. 

 Wallflower is native to western United States, with stout 

 stems and terminal clusters of showy yellow or orange flowers. 



The Violet Family 



The Violet Family (Violaceae) includes about eighty different 

 species of violets distributed throughout the United States, found 



