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the margins denticulate or repand. Flowers in elongated, loose, terminal 

 panicles, greenish. Each flower about one-eighth of an inch broad or 

 slightly broader; the obtuse calyx lobes n-fU-e-ted; petals five, lamvolate 

 or linear-lanceolate, twin- as long as the calyx. 



Swamps, wet banks and wet woods. Maine to Ontario, Minnesota, 

 Virginia, Iowa and Missouri. Flowering in May and June. 



Foamflower; False Miterwort 

 Tiarella cord i folia Linnaeus 



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Flowering scapes 6 to 12 inches high, slender and pubescent, from 

 a rather stout, perennial root. Leaves all basal, long petioled, broadly 

 ovate or nearly orbicular, cordate at the base, three to svven-lobed. blunt 

 or pointed at the apex, 2 to 4 inches long, margins crenate or dentate, 

 pubescent above with scattered hairs, glabrate or downy along the veins 

 beneath. Flowers white, forming a terminal raceme, I to 4 inches long. 

 Each flower about one-fourth of an inch broad; petals five, oblong, entire 

 or slightly toothed, somewhat longer than the five white calyx lobes; stamens 

 ten, anthers reddish or yellowish. Fruit of two very unequal carpels, about 

 one-fourth of an inch long, reflexed on slender pedicels. 



In rich, moist woods, Nova Scotia to Ontario and Minnesota, south 

 along the mountains to Georgia, and \vi-st to Indiana and Michigan. 

 Flowering from April to June. Also known as Coolwort. 



Alumroot 

 Heuchera amcricana Linnaeus 



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Flowering stem rather stout. ij to 3 feet high, leafless, glandular, 

 hirsute. Leaves basal, long petioled, 3 to 4 inches wide with seven to 

 nine rounded, crenate-dentate lobes; the older leaves glabrous or with 

 scattered hairs on the upper surfaces, new leaves usually somewhat pubes- 

 cent. Flowers greenish yellow, in elongated panicles; calyx tube broadly 



