244 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 2—8 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. 



