HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



Darlington ia of California is the only other member of this 

 order in the United States. 



Thread-leaved Sundew 



Drosera filiformis. — Family, Sundew. Color, magenta purple. 

 Parts of the flower in fives or sixes. Styles, divided, so as to 

 seem like 6 to 10, but they are in reality 3 to 5. Flowers, on one 

 side of a naked scape, i inch broad. This species differs in the 

 shape of its leaves and color of its blossoms from the round- 

 leaved sundew (p. 8 1 ). Leaves, all from the base, long, thread-like, 

 covered with purple glands raised on hairs. June to September. 



It is insectivorous, and catches small insects among its 

 sticky, hairy glands, assimilates and digests them. One 

 may often find dried remains of hapless insects scattered 

 along the edges of the leaves and stems. In wet sand, as 

 the New Jersey pine barrens, following the coast, Massa- 

 chusetts to Delaware. 



Garden Orpine. Live-for-ever 



Sedum purpureum. — Family, Orpine. Color, purple. This 

 fleshy plant with thick stems about 2 feet high, and stout, oval 

 leaves, has escaped from gardens and attached itself to congenial 

 rocky soil in some places. August and September. 



Marsh Five-finger. Purple Cinquefoil 



PotentUU palustris. — Family, Rose. Color, dark purple. Calyx, 

 open, 1 inch broad, 5-cleft, purple inside; bractlets between the 

 divisions. Corolla, of 5 purple petals, shorter than the calyx. 

 Stamens, numerous. Fruit, of several achenes in a roundish head 

 on a large and spongy receptacle. Flowers, few, clustered in a 

 flat cyme from a smooth stem which roots at the base. Leaves, 

 pinnate, with 5 to 7 oblong, toothed leaflets, light green above, 

 downy beneath. June to August. 



Cold bogs from Pennsylvania and New Jersey northward. 



Water Avens. Purple Avens 



Geum rivkte (name means " good taste," referring to the pleasant 

 taste of the roots of several species). — Family, Rose. Color, 

 purple. Calyx, 5 -divided, of a brownish purple color. Petals, 

 5, large, notched, contracted below into claws. Stamens, many. 

 Style, jointed in the middle, the upper half feathery. Fruit, a 

 head of dry achenes. A plant about 2 feet high, found in bogs 

 and wet meadows, with several large nodding flowers on an 

 unbranched stem. Leaves mostly from the root, irregularly and 



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