BLUE AND PURPLE WILD FLOWERS 



range from Maine to Florida, and west through 

 Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Missouri and Texas. 



MAD-DOQ. SKULLCAP. MADWEED. 

 HOODWORT 



Scutellaria lateriflora. Mint Family. 



A well-known, perennial herb, formerly esteemed as a 

 remedy in dog-bites. It was also used as a family 

 medicine for nervous disorders of every description. 

 This species grows commonly in moist, shady places, 

 along ditches and ponds, where it raises its slender, 

 smooth, square, leafy, and much-branched stalk a 

 foot or two high. The thin, coarsely toothed, slender- 

 stemmed leaves are pointed oblong to lance shaped, 

 and are arranged in opposite alternating pairs. The 

 several or many small, tubular, blue flowers are two 

 lipped. The upper lip is arched and the spreading 

 lower one is notched at the apex. The two-lipped 

 calyx has a small, helmet-like appendage on the upper 

 lip, which is an easy means for identifying the genus. 

 The flowers spring from the axils of the uppermost 

 leaves, on one-sided, terminal branches, from July to 

 September. This species ranges from coast to coast, 

 and from the British possessions south to Florida, 

 New Mexico and Washington. 



CATNIP. CATMINT. NEP 



Nepeta Cataria. Mint Family. 



Country folks who have drifted to the great cities will 

 never forget how Aunt Kate or Aunt Sue used to soothe 



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