BLUE AND PURPLE 317 



TALL WILD LARKSPUR: 



Delphinium exaltatum. 



Crowfoot Family. July — Aug. 



A plant 2-6 feet high, found in rich woods. 



Pennsylvania to Minnesota, Nebraska and 



southward. 



Flowers — Light purple, irregular, borne in long, 



slender spikes. 

 Leaves — Deeply 3-5-cleft, divisions narrowly 

 wedge-shaped, 3-cleft at the apex. 



DWARF LARKSPUR: Stagger Weed. 



D. tricorne. 

 A plant 2—3 feet high, appearing earlier in the 

 season; leaves deeply 5-parted, their divisions 

 unequally 3-5-cleft; root a tuberous cluster. 



PURPLE ORCHIS: Fringeless Purple Orchis. 



Habenaria peramoena. 

 Orchis Family. July — Aug. 



Found in moist meadows. Pennsylvania and 

 New Jersey to Illinois, and southward. 

 Flowers — Purple, clustered in dense spike termi- 

 nating stem 12-30 inches high; lower 

 lip fan-shaped, toothed. 

 Leaves — Oblong to lance-shaped. 



