WILD FLOWERS YELLOW AND ORANGE 



are borne in clusters at the axils of the leaves. They 

 rarely possess petals, but they do produce a few seeds, 

 and have from three to ten stamens. The calyx is 

 hairy, like the stalk, and the lower side of the leaves. 

 The long, narrow, oblong leaves are set alternately 

 and almost directly on the stalk. Their surface is 

 rough, the midrib is strong, and the edges are slightly 

 curled. Their colour is dark green above and paler 

 and whitish beneath. The erect, slightly branching 

 and woody stalk grows two feet or less in height. It 

 is leafy, and is covered with fine, whitish hairs. This 

 plant is found in fields where the soil is dry, rocky and 

 sandy, from Maine to Indiana, and Wisconsin; south 

 to North Carolina and Kentucky. The Latin name 

 is from the Greek, helios, the sun, and anthemon, a 

 flower. Frostweed is a popular name given to this 

 plant because of its peculiar habit of accumulating 

 frost crystals of snowy whiteness late in the fall, which 

 bursts the bark near the base of the stem and flares 

 out in weird, feathery fantasy, at various angles and 

 degrees of formation. 



ROUND-LEAVED, OR EARLY YELLOW VIOLET 



Viola rotundifolia. Violet Family. 



Much less conspicuous, and consequently not so 

 widely known as the larger Downy Yellow species, 

 the Round-leaved Violet is generally the first of the 

 Violets to appear in blossom. Snuggled beneath the 

 litter of fallen leaves in the seclusion of cool, hilly woods 

 where the ground is moist, but well drained and 



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