BLUE AND PURPLE 313 



FORGET-ME-NOT: Mouse-ear: Snake Grass: 

 Scorpion Grass : Love Me : Myosotis scorpioides. 



Borage Family. May — July. 



Escaped from gardens; a plant with leafy, 

 branching, half-reclining stems 6-15 inches 

 high, found in wet ground. Newfoundland to 

 Pennsylvania and beyond. Naturalized from 

 Europe. 



Flowers — Small, light blue, with a golden eye, 5- 

 lobed, in small clusters. 



Leaves — Oblong or lance-shaped, seated on stem ; 

 leaves and stem hairy. 



SMALLER FORGET-ME-NOT: M. Idxa. 



A native species, found in wet ground from 

 Newfoundland to Ontario and southward. 

 Flowers — Light blue, on long stems, loosely clus- 

 tered; lobes of the flower cup as long 

 as the flower tube. 

 Leaves — Blunt, oblong. 



SPIDERWORT: Widow's or Job's Tears. 



Tradescdntia virginidna. 

 Spiderwort Family. May — Aug. 



Found in rich, moist woods, thickets. Con- 

 necticut to South Carolina; also introduced 

 northwestward. 

 Flowers — Purplish blue, 1-2 inches broad, clus- 

 tered and seated upon the end of stem 

 between blade-like leaflets, 3 parted. 

 Leaves — Long, narrow, sheathing at the base. 

 Plant stem erect, leafy, mucilaginous, 

 8—36 inches high. 



