RED OR REDDISH PURPLE 141 



It grows in cold mountainous woods nearly 

 throughout Canada, in New England, and Penn- 

 sylvania, and in the Rockies in Colorado and 

 Washington. 



TINKER'S WEED. WILD OR WOOD 



IPECAC. WILD COFFEE. HORSE 



GINSENG. FEVERWORT 



Triosteum perfoliatum Honeysuckle Family 



Fruit. — The rather dry orange or scarlet 

 drupes are borne at the junction of leaf and 

 plant steins. The long lobed calyx remains 

 attached to the fruit summit. The drupes are 

 covered with fine hairs and inclose three bony 

 nutlets. 



Leaves. — The leaves are ovate to broadly 

 oval, acute at the apex, abruptly or gradually 

 narrowed at the base, and stemless or united 

 about the stem. They are soft pubescent 

 beneath and somewhat hairy above. 



Flowers. — The purplish brown flowers are 

 usually clustered. June. 



This is a coarse hairy herb, growing from 

 Canada and New England southward to Iowa 

 and Alabama. 



