HARPERS GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



Wild Morning Glory 



/. hederkcea. — Color, white, pale blue, or pink. Leaves, heart- 

 shape, 3 - lobed, petioled. Flowers, i to 3 on long peduncles. 

 Calyx, very hairy. July to October. 



Like the well-known morning glory of our gardens, this 

 species naturalized from Southern countries opens its flow- 

 ers in the early morning, closing them before ten o'clock. 



Italian or American Honeysuckle or Woodbine 



Lonicera Caprifblium. — Family, Honeysuckle. Color of trum- 

 pet-shape corolla, purplish or crimson outside, whitish within. 

 The border is strongly 2-lipped, the upper lip consisting of 4 

 divisions, the lower of 1, narrow, turned down. Flowers, 1 to ij 

 inches long, in terminal, sessile clusters. Leaves, the upper ones 

 completely joined around the stem {perfoliate), the lower with 

 short petioles or none, separate. Fruit, a cluster of red berries 

 within the perfoliate leaf, making this a showy shrub in fall. May, 

 and June. 



Escaped from gardens and growing wild from New York 

 and New Jersey southward. 



Climbing Hempweed 



Mikknia scdndens. — Family, Composite. Color, pink. Leaves, 

 opposite, heart -shape, or triangular, pointed, toothed near the 

 base, on long petioles. Heads, containing 4 flowers, all grouped 

 in corymbose clusters. Under the heads are 4 involucral scales. 

 July to September. 



The only climbing Composite. It twines around bushes 

 and forms a tangle of green leaves intermixed with pretty 

 pink clusters of flowers. They have a way of lying flat over 

 the tops of other bushes, forming areas of deep pink. As the 

 flowers grow old, they become pale and ragged. They can be 

 seen in almost any wet place on Long Island, in New Jersey, 

 to Kentucky and southward, keeping rather near the coast. 

 The leaves wilt quickly after being picked. (See illustration, 

 P- 449-) 



VINES AND SHRUBS WITH BLUE OR PURPLE BLOSSOMS 



Pipe Vine. Dutchman's Pipe 



Aristolbchia macrophylla, — Family, Birthwort. Color of tube, 

 greenish yellow; of limb, brownish purple. Calyx, tubular, bent 

 and curved like a Dutch pipe, 1 A inches long swollen below, nar- 



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