pink WILD FLOWERS 



notched at the broadened apex. The many flowers are 

 gathered in crowded terminal clusters. This low- 

 growing Pink is found from New York to Florida, 

 and west to Michigan and Kentucky. 



MOTHERWORT. COWTHWORT 



Leonurus Cardmca. Mint Family. 



The tall, leafy, and often branched spires of this 

 familiar, old-fashioned, domestic herb of past gen- 

 erations, is commonly found about old dwellings and 

 along roadsides, where it grows from two to five feet 

 in height. The square stem is rather stout, and, 

 together with the foliage, is usually lightly dusted with 

 whitish powder. The branches are straight and 

 ascending. The thin and rather soft leaves are notice- 

 ably veined, and are set in close, opposite pairs, which 

 swing out in every direction on slender stems. The 

 leaves are wedge-shaped toward the base, and become 

 divided above the middle into three sharply toothed 

 lobes with the central division much larger and longer 

 than the rest. The lower leaves which are long stemmed 

 are much broader and are deeply cut with rounded, 

 irregularly toothed lobes. Numerous little wreaths 

 of tiny pink, purple, or white flowers are set around 

 the stalk at the angle of each pair of leaves and at 

 close intervals. The tubular corolla is two-lipped. 

 The erect upper lip, which encloses the stamens, is 

 slightly arched and densely covered with white, woolly 

 hairs above. The spreading and mottled lower lip is 

 three-lobed, with the middle one much the largest 



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