FIGWORT FAMILY. Scrophulariaceae. 



lavender 

 April-May 



A small species, generally found in the 

 S eeT ^' iT^^ grass, with a slender branching stem and 

 Veronica small oval leaves, toothless, short- 



serpyllifolia Stemmed, and opposite-growing. Flowers 

 White, pale ji^e those of American Brooklime but 

 white or pale lavender with deeper stripes: 

 they are less frail than those of the other 

 Veronicas. 2-10 inches high. In fields and thickets, 

 from Me., south to Ga., and westward. Also in Europe 

 and Asia. Named for St. Veronica. 



A handsome annual or biennial species 

 Fern=leaved ^^,^^^ ^ rather sticky fine-hair v, leafy, 

 False Foxglove -^ . ' j» 



Gerardia branching stem, round in section. The 



pedicidaria light green leaves are fernlike, and deeply 

 Pure yellow cut into many toothed lobes ; they are 

 August^ stemless or nearly so. The showy, pure 



light lemon yellow flowers are bell-shaped 

 with five broad, spreading, rounded lobes. The blos- 

 soms measure a full inch or more in diameter. The 

 outer surface and the throat of the corolla, the stamens, 

 and the toothed lobes of the calyx are fine-hairy. Both 

 flower and fruit are very beautiful, and the plant would 

 be worthy of cultivation if its character permitted ; but 

 the Gerardias are more or less parasitic on the roots of 

 other plants, 1-3 feet high. Visited frequent!}' by the 

 bumblebee and the light brown butterfly, Junonia ccenia. 

 On the borders of dry woodlands and thickets, from Me., 

 south, and west to Minn, and Mo. 



^ ^ . A handsome species with a simple stem, 



Downy False , „ , , 



Foxglove ^^^ j^ellow-green leaves, ovate lance- 



Geravdia flava shaped, broadest at the base, slightly 

 Pure yellow coarse dull-toothed or toothless, the edge 

 July-August ^vavy. Both stem and leaves are velvety 

 downy with soft hairs, the leaves with their stalks ma- 

 genta-tinged. The showy, pure yellow or light lemon 

 yellow flowers about H inch long, trumpet-shaped like 

 foxglove, with five lobes, the broad throat down}' on the 

 inside. Stamens four, two short and two long ; hairy. 

 The flowers set in a close terminal cluster, rather one- 

 sided. Cross-fertilized mostly by butterflies and bumble- 

 bees : the Peacock butterfly {Junonia cceuia), light brown 

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