PINK TO MAGENTA 



1. GREAT or SPIKED WILLOW-HERB; 

 FIREWEED: Epilobium an gusti folium. 



Evening Primrose Family. July Aug. 



Found in dry soil, clearings, newly burnt land. 



New England to North Carolina, west to 



Minnesota and Kansas, and, with few excep- 



tions, to the Pacific. 

 FLOWERS Magenta, rarely white, divisions 4, in 



spike terminating stem 28 feet high. 

 LEAVES Narrow, quite toothless, tapering. 



2. CARDINAL FLOWER: Lobelia cardinalis. 

 Lobelia Family. Aug. Sept. 



Found in low, moist ground. New Brunswick 

 to Ontario and southward. 



FLOWERS Rich, deep red, lower lip 3-lobed, in 

 somewhat 1 -sided spike terminating 

 stem 2-4< feet high. 



LEAVES Dark green, oblong to lance-shaped, 

 slightly toothed, upper leaves stemless. 



