PINK AND RED GROUP 



American Germander. Wood Sage 

 Teucrium canadense. — Family, Mint. Color, pink, crimson, or 

 sometimes cream color. Calyx and corolla, 2 -lipped. The corolla 

 seems to have no upper lip. It has 4 upper, nearly equal, small 

 lobes like little ears or horns, while below a broad, concave lip 

 projects. Stamens, 4, 2 being taller than the others. Pistil, 1. 

 Fruit, 4 nutlets, from the center of which the style stands. The 

 flowers, about 6 in a whorl, grow in terminal spikes, greenish buds 

 above, pink flowers lower down, while often, lowest of all, searions, 

 withered corollas detract from the delicate beauty of the 6 to 12- 

 inch-long spike. Leaves, serrate, lance-shape to ovate, sharply 

 pointed at apex, short-petioled or sessile, opposite. Bracts ac- 

 company the flowers in the spike. 2 to 3 feet high. Plant cov- 

 ered with soft down. Stem, square. July to September. 



Rich, low ground and wet meadows. New England to 

 Nebraska and southward. I have found this pretty mint 

 common on the shores of Greenwood Lake, New Jersey, 

 and on the south shore, along the bay fronts, of Long Island. 

 A var. Uttorale, with smaller flowers, stiff stem, lance-sh. 

 leaves, whole plant very softly-downy, occurs near the coast 

 from Maine to Florida. (See illustration, p. 288.) 



False Dragon Head 



Physostegia <virginiana. — Family, Mint. Color, light pink, 

 touched with crimson. Calyx, bell - shape, deeply 5 -toothed. 

 Corolla, tubular, with inflated throat, 2-lipped, the upper lip en- 

 tire, the lower 3-parted, its middle lobe broad and notched, 1 

 inch long. Leaves, thick, serrate, lance-shape, sessile, opposite, 

 tapering at both ends. Stems, smooth, slender, wand-like, square. 

 June to September. 



Tall plants, 1 to 5 feet in height, with showy spikes of pink- 

 flowers, crowded, almost overlapping one another. Often 

 cultivated. Wet soil, Quebec, south to Florida, Louisiana, 

 and westward. 



Red Hemp Nettle. Ironwort 



Galeopsis Ladanum. — Family, Mint. Color, pink or rose, some- 

 times spotted with yellow. Corolla, of the labiate type, the upper 

 lip arched, the lower 3-cleft, the a lateral lobes small, oval, the 

 middle one notched. Stem, long, 6 to 18 inches high, leafy, 

 whitish with small hairs. Leaves, 1 to 2 inches long, linear. 

 acute at both ends, serrate, petioled. Flower-clusters axillary, 

 on long peduncles. June to September. 



Waste places and fields, rather common from New Jersey 

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