HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



dotted. Stem, i to 2 feet high, straight, smooth, branched above, 

 bearing numerous flowers in the terminal raceme. Tiny bulbs 

 often occur in the leaf-axils. July to September. 



The moneywort of our gardens, sometimes called yellow 

 myrtle, belongs to this genus. It grows trailing on the 

 ground, with roundish, bright-green leaves and yellow blos- 

 soms. It escapes from gardens and becomes wild in fence- 

 corners and fields. A bright flower, of low meadows, 

 swamps, and moist thickets. Newfoundland south to 

 Georgia and Arkansas. 



Fringed Loosestrife 



Steironema ciliatum — Family, Primrose. Color, yellow. Calyx 

 and corolla united below, deeply 5 -parted above, the divisions 

 spreading. Flowers, on long, filiform peduncles, grouped with 

 small leaves, axillary, opposite. Leaves, opposite, often so close 

 together as to seem whorled, ovate or oblong, sharply pointed at 

 apex, rounded or inclined to be heart-shaped at base, all on long, 

 hairy-fringed petioles, their margins slightly fringed . June to August . 



Low grounds and moist thickets from Nova Scotia south 

 to Georgia, west to Arizona. Found 6,300 feet high in 

 mountains of North Carolina. 



Butterfly-weed. Pleurisy-root 



Asdepias tuberosa — Family, Milkweed. Color, yellow, a deep- 

 orange shade. Flowers, in terminal umbels or scattered along 

 the branches. Leaves, rough, hairy, sessile, or with short petioles, 

 linear to ovate. Grayish pods are produced which are pedicelled 

 and conspicuous. June to August. 



The only yellow species of this genus. It grows freely in 

 clumps with rough and hairy stem and leaves, 1 to 2 feet 

 tall. Brilliant and beautiful, it colors the fields, especially 

 southward, with orange. Its juice is not milky. Dry fields 

 and roadsides. (See illustration, p. 201.) 



Common Gromwell 



Lithospermum officinale Family, Borage. Color, yellowish 



or white. (See chapter on White Flowers, p. 119.) 



L. Gmelini. — Color, yellow. Calyx and corolla, tubular, with 

 spreading, divided border. Flowers, large, showy, all with pe- 

 duncles in terminal spikes, leafy-bracteoV Leaves and stem, 

 bristly-rough. April to June. 



Pine barrens and wet, sandy ground from New York to 

 Minnesota and southward. 



