HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



Wild Pink 



S. pennsyl<vanica. — Color, rose-pink. Calyx, long, tubular, vis- 

 cid, hairy, 5-toothed. Corolla of 5 notched or rounded petals 

 standing on claws, open and spreading, with a crown at the center 

 where the broad blade is joined to the claw. Stamens, 10. Styles, 

 3. Leaves, mostly from the root, clustered, smooth, on hairy 

 petioles, narrowly wedge-shaped, long. Often a single pair on 

 stem, narrow, sessile. May and June. 



A low, beautiful plant found in many rocky and open 

 woods around New York from Massachusetts southward. 

 It grows in tufts, full of bright color, with soft, velvety buds 

 and large, open flowers. (See illustration, p. 255.) 



Fire Pink. Catchfly 

 S. <virginica. — Color, deep crimson, nearly scarlet. Flowers, 

 borne on slender peduncles, a few in a loose cyme. Stem, 1 to 2 

 feet high. Petals, 2-cleft, oblong. Calyx, bell-shaped, some- 

 what swollen in fruit, with thin, dry, membranaceous teeth, 

 viscid. Leaves, those above opposite, long, narrow; those at 

 base spatulate, broad at apex, tapering into broad petioles, 3 to 

 5 feet long. Flowers, in loose, cymose panicles. May to Sep- 

 tember. 



Dry, open woods, New Jersey and western New York to 

 Minnesota and southward. 



Bouncing Bet. Soapwort 



Saponaria officinalis Family, Pink. Color, light rose, or some- 

 times white when in shaded localities. Calyx, 5-toothed. Petals, 

 10. Stamens, 10. Styles, 2. Leaves, lance-shaped, the lower 

 ones broader, more oval than the others, opposite, smooth. 

 Flowers, corymbed in clusters, generally double. Joints of stem 

 swollen. 



A slovenly flower, still somewhat cultivated, but often 

 running wild. The calyx bursts and the petals seem tum- 

 bling out. The plant is from 1 to 2 feet high, and has a 

 generally back-yardish appearance. Along roadsides and in 

 old, abandoned gardens. 



Deptford Pink 



Dianthus Armeria Family, Pink. Color, pink. Calyx, tubular, 



5-pointed. Petals, 10, pink with white spots. Stamens, 10. 

 Styles, 2. Leaves, long, narrow, hairy. Flowers, densely clustered, 

 terminal, on stiff, erect stems 6 to 18 inches high. 



Formerly cultivated, and now escaped in many places. I 



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