36 WILD FLOWERS AND FRUITS 



TANSY (Tanacetum vulgar e) . Composite family. 



Rather tall herb; smooth; flowers in flat topped 

 clusters (dense corymbs) ; flower-heads small, disk- 

 shaped, with many flowers, without rays, very 

 small; leaves pinnately dissected. Roadsides. 

 Summer. 



BLADDERWORT (Utricularia vulgaris). Bladderwort 



family. 



In water; several flowers at summit; calyx arid 

 corolla split, latter with spur; leaves finely dis- 

 sected, with many bladders. Summer. 



YELLOW WATER CROWFOOT (Ranunculus multifidus). 



Crowfoot family. 



Flower like buttercup on long stalk rising from 

 water (or mud), leaves generally under water and 

 finely dissected, those rising from water some- 

 times with kidney-shaped leaflets. Early summer. 



10. Leaves (not opposite or whorled) compound, 3 leaflets, flower 

 not in raceme or umbel. 



EARLY CROWFOOT (Ranunculus septentrionalis). Crow- 

 foot family. 



Low plant, somewhat hairy; flowers solitary or 

 few; sepals 5; petals 5; leaflets generally with 

 stalks, broad, irregularly cut. Moist places. Spring 

 and summer. 



YELLOW WOOD SORREL (Oxalis strictd). Geranium 



family. 



Low plant, branching; flowers on stalks from 

 axils ; sepals 5 , petals 5 ; leaflets inversely heart- 

 shaped, drooping toward night. Spring, summer. 



BULBOUS BUTTERCUP (Ranunculus bulbosus). Crowfoot 



family. 



Av. ht. i ft., from bulb; stem hairy; flowers soli- 

 tary, i in. across, 5 petals, 5 sepals bent back; leaf 

 3 -divided, each division again cut into rounded 

 lobes. Fields, etc. Spring, summer. 



