WILD FLOWERS pink 



This Orchid ranges from North Carolina and Indiana 

 northward to Canada. 



PINK KNOTWEED. SMARTWEED. 

 PERSICARIA 



Polygonum pennsylvanicum. Buckwheat Family. 

 This exceedingly common and familiar annual is 

 usually found in moist, open, waste soils, everywhere 

 from the Gulf States to Minnesota-, Ontario, and Nova 

 Scotia. The branching, jointed stalk is smooth 

 below and hairy above, and grows in an irregular 

 erect or sprawling manner from one to three feet tall. 

 It is often flattened on one side, and has hairy, tissue- 

 like sheaths at the joints. The long, narrow and 

 stoutly-ribbed tapering leaves are toothless, and 

 alternate upon the stalk. The small, five-parted 

 flowers vary from pink to white and are densely crowded 

 into numerous, irregularly clustered, thick terminal 

 spikes. The pink calyx takes the place of petals, and 

 remains after the flowering period to enclose the 

 flattened seeds as it did the buds. In her delightful 

 book, ''Nature's Garden," Neltje Blanchan truly says: 

 " Familiarity alone breeds contempt for this plant, that 

 certainly possesses much beauty." There are many 

 varieties, closely related to this species, distributed 

 through the country. 



CORN COCKLE. CORN ROSE. CORN CAMPION 

 CROWN-OF-THE-FIELD 



Agrostemma Githago. Pink Family. 



The large, attractive magenta or purple red flowers 



of this terror of the wheatfields are pretty well known 



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