WILD FLOWERS BLUE AND PURPLE 



is found from Newfoundland to British Columbia, 

 Virginia, Kansas and Colorado. 



SMALLER PURPLE FRINGED ORCHIS 



Habenaria psycodes. Orchid Family. 



This very pretty and rather slender-stemmed plant 

 is generally smaller than the Large Purple Fringed 

 Orchis and grows from one to three feet high, in wet 

 woods, swamps and meadows, where it unfolds its 

 fragrant, shorter-fringed lilac blossoms, during July 

 and August. The smooth, angular, purple-stained 

 stalk bears a few thin, tough and pointed-oval or 

 lance-shaped leaves which are clasping and alter- 

 nating. The flowers and their arrangement are quite 

 similar to the following species. The petals are toothed, 

 however, and the three-parted, fan-shaped divisions 

 of the lip are not so deeply fringed, while the slender 

 spur is more curved. Altogether this Orchid resembles 

 its beautiful larger and earlier-blossoming sister so 

 closely that it is often confused with it. Happily, the 

 Smaller Purple Fringed species is very common and 

 more easily found. It ranges from Newfoundland to 

 Minnesota, and south to North Carolina and Indiana. 



LARGE PURPLE FRINGED ORCHIS 



Habenaria fimbriata. Orchid Family. 



This magnificent Orchid grows from one to five feet 

 high, in rich, wet woods and meadows, from June to 

 August. It is the largest and handsomest of its genus, 

 and is a prize that is well worth the wet feet and tem- 



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