WHITE AND GREENISH WILD FLOWERS 



of us have experienced. The hairy leaf and flower 

 stems rise directly from the running roots. They are 

 from two to six inches long and are sheathed at the base. 

 The wheel-shaped flower has five short-clawed, rounded 

 white petals and numerous orange-yellow stamens 

 with a green, cone-shaped centre. The five green 

 sepals are alternated with an equal number of bracts 

 which show between the petals. Later, after the 

 petals fall away, the sepals remain closely set to the 

 maturing fruit. Several flowers are loosely clustered 

 on short foot stems from which, later on, the attrac- 

 tive berry droops prettily. The compound leaf has 

 three toothed and broad wedge-shaped hairy leaflets 

 that overtop the fruit. They form little dark green 

 tufts in scattered patches in fields, pastures and along 

 woodsides, flowering from April to June, and often 

 again during August, from New Brunswick to South 

 Dakota, and South to Florida, Louisiana and Arizona. 



WHITE AVENS 

 Geum canadense. Rose Family. 



The slender, branching, angular stem of the com- 

 mon White Avens grows about eighteen inches high 

 in moist, shady places and blossoms from June to 

 August. The large, tufted, long-stemmed, basal leaves 

 have from three to five unequal divisions or are lobed. 

 The upper leaves are long, oval affairs, arranged singly 

 or in threes, and are usually stemless. They are all 

 roughly textured, and both stem and leaves are coarse 

 and hairy. The five-petalled white flower is insig- 



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