HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



Trailing Wild Bean 



Strophostyles hehvola. — Family, Pulse. Color, greenish white 

 varying to purplish. Flowers, 3 to 5 in a head at the end of a 

 peduncle which lengthens as the season advances. Leaves, pin- 

 nately 3-divided, on petioles shorter than the peduncles. Leaf- 

 lets, broadly ovate, pointed at apex, rounded at base, smooth, 

 thickish, with small, narrow stipules. July to October. 



Stems hairy, somewhat branched, reclining, 2 to 8 feet long, 

 but seldom climbing high. Following the coast from Massa- 

 chusetts to Florida and westward to Texas, in sandy shores 

 and along river-banks. 



Pink Wild Bean 



S, umbellata. — Color, pink, with a purplish tinge, fading to yel- 

 lowish. Much like the last, with slenderer stems, 1 to 5 feet long, 

 downy with soft hairs. Leaves, divided into 3 leaflets, on short 

 petioles with minute stipules. Flowers, in a head on long pe- 

 duncles. Prostrate, not climbing. July to September. 



New Jersey and Long Island, south to Florida, west to 

 Louisiana. 



Butterfly Pea 



CtUoria mariana. — Family, Pulse. Color, pale blue. Corolla, 

 very large, handsome, 2 inches long. Flowers, 1 to 3 on short 

 peduncles, axillary. Leaves, of 3 separate leaflets, each on short 

 stalks, narrow, tipped with a little point, attended by small, nar- 

 row stipules. June to August. 



The plant climbs by twining or is self-sustaining. Dry 

 soil, on banks and hillsides, New Jersey and New York to 

 Florida and westward. 



Hog Peanut 



Amphicarpa monoica. — Family, Pulse. Color, purplish. Corolla, 

 papilionaceous. Flowers, numerous, in nodding racemes. Pod, 

 1 inch long. Leaves, of 3 thin, delicate, ovate, sharply pointed 

 leaflets. Low plants with twining stems covered with brown 

 hairs. 



Besides the ordinary flowers, there are lower ones on thread- 

 like stems near the base, or underground, without corolla. 

 These produce a one-sided, swollen, very fruitful pod. Hogs 

 are fond of them and uproot them, from which the common 

 name has arisen. 



" If we carefully uproot the soil the peanut is soon disclosed 



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