BLUE AND PURPLE WILD FLOWERS 



grassy meadows when the soil is dry and sandy, from 

 June to August. The perennial or biennial, brittle 

 leafy stalk is minutely hairy below and is noticeably 

 twisted. It is stained with red inside the leaf joints, 

 and grows from one to four feet high. The rather 

 thick, pale green leaves are often irregularly notched. 

 The short-stemmed basal ones are tufted, and are 

 broad-oval shaped, with very blunt, rounding tips. 

 The upper ones clasp the stalk alternatingly, and are 

 oblong or lance-shaped, and smaller and more acutely 

 pointed. The small, two-lipped, pale blue flowers 

 are scattered along the spike for some distance. 

 The lower lip is three-parted with two white swellings 

 at the throat, and the smaller upper lip is divided 

 by the cleft that separates the tube its entire length. 

 The parts are all sharply pointed and flaring. The 

 green calyx is five-parted. This species is found from 

 North Carolina, Louisiana, and Arkansas to Canada. 



BROOK LOBELIA 



Lobelia Kdlmii. Lobelia Family. 



This is a small, slender species, growing only from 

 six to twenty inches high, in wet meadows and on wet 

 banks, where it increases from perennial offshoots 

 and blossoms from July to September. The smooth, 

 light green stalk is erect, leafy and branching. The 

 leaf is very narrow, blunt-pointed, and nearly toothless. 

 The upper ones clasp the stalk. The small, light blue 

 flowers are arranged in sparse, loose, terminal spikes. 

 The three lobes of the lower lip are spotted with white 



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