HARPERS GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



Aquatic or found in wet ditches or in marshes. Used for salad 

 and for garnishing dishes. 



Crinkle-root. Pepper-root. Toothwort 

 Dentaria diphylla. — Family, Mustard. Pod, long and flat. 

 Flowers, in a terminal corymb. Rootstock, edible, 5 to 10 inches 

 long, tasting like water-cress. Leaves, on the stem and from the 

 root, whorled or opposite, petioled, each divided into 3 coarsely 

 toothed leaflets. May. 



Perennials,- found in cool, moist woods in the Northern and 

 .Middle States. 



D. Ucinikta. — Color, pale purple or nearly white. Leaves, in 2 

 or 3 whorls, on the stem, 3 in each whorl, long-petioled, each leaf 

 3-parted, into linear or lance-shaped leaflets, which are irregularly 

 and deeply toothed. Similar root-leaves, or none. April and 

 May, as early as March in the South. (See p. 311 under Purple 

 Group.) 



A short raceme of flowers terminates the unbranched stem. 

 A pretty species, with graceful foliage, found from New 

 England to Minnesota and southward. 



Spring Cress 



Ca.rdi.mine bulbbsa. — Family, Mustard. Flowers, in fours, but 

 6 stamens, 2 being shorter than the others. Pod, long, tipped 

 with the slender style, and large stigma, 2-valved, opening with a 

 sudden movement, disclosing a single row of seeds in each cell. 

 Leaves, simple, broad, those at root roundish or heart-shaped, 

 those on stem becoming narrower until they are lance-shaped. 

 All somewhat toothed. 6 to 18 inches high. April to June. 



Our earliest and prettiest bitter cress, with quite large 

 flowers in terminal clusters, much like the candytuft of our 

 gardens. Wet, low grounds. 



C7. hirsuia. — This species is hairy, small, with leaves clustered 

 at the root and growing on the stem, either cut or entire. It 

 may be a delicate plant, with leaves almost like ferns, and fine, 

 soft clusters of flowers, or it may grow 2 feet tall, with coarser, 

 larger foliage. It must have wet soil. I have seen it most beau- 

 tiful in the hills, on wet rocks, where perpetual springs trickling 

 down make an environment which the little cress loves. 



Cuckoo Flower 



C. pratensis will scarcely be found away from I lie wet meadows, 

 and even there it is rare. It is a handsome plant, with white or 



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