116 WILD FLOWERS AND FRUITS 



5 -pointed; stamens 4; leaves round with wavy edges 

 and with short stalks. Damp woods. Early summer. 



RAGGED ROBIN (Lychnis Flos-cuculi) . Pink family. 

 Ht. i2 ft. ; flowers several in umbellate clusters, 

 terminal; petals (5) divided into 4 narrow lobes; 

 leaves narrowly lance-shaped. Damp ground. 

 Summer. 



See also WILD GERANIUM (Purple 6). 



6. Leaves opposite, stem not hairy or downy, plant creeping, 

 matted or climbing. 



CLIMBING HEMP-WEED (Mikania scandens). Composite 



family. 



Climbing on bushes; flowers tubular, small, flower- 

 heads in clusters; leaves heart-shaped, toothed, 

 with stalks. Thickets on streams. Summer. 



7. Leaves opposite, stem not hairy or downy, upright, flowers 



in spike. 



OBEDIENT-PLANT (Physostegia Virginiana). Mint family. 

 Av. ht. 2-3 ft.; stem square, stout, ending in 

 spike of large flowers which remain where placed 

 when bent from side to side, as if on hinge; calyx 

 5 -toothed, corolla funnel-form, 2 -lipped, upper lip 

 concave, lower 3-lobed; leaves thick, without stalks, 

 lance-shaped to oblong, mostly toothed. Summer. 



LOPSEED (Phryma Leptostachya) . Mint family. 



Max. ht. 3 ft. ; small flowers in delicate spike at 

 end of branches; calyx cylindrical, 2-lipped; corolla 

 2-lipped; stigma double; leaves thin, toothed, oval, 

 lower with long stalks. Moist woods. Summer. 



8. Leaves opposite, stem not hairy or downy, upright, flowers 



in cluster, 5 petals. 



SPRING BEAUTY (Claytonia Virginicd). Purslane family. 

 Ht. under i ft. ; stem weak; flowers in open cluster; 

 sepals 2 ; leaves (2) linear to lance-shaped. Open 

 woods. Common. Spring. 



