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NATURE STUDY AND AGRICULTURE 
Cotor INDEX FOR COMMON PRAIRIE FLOWERS 
Cotor oF FLOWER 
NAME OF PLANT AND ITS NUMBER IN THE DESCRIPTIONS FOLLOWING 
Greenish White 
White 
Purplish White 
and = Bluish 
White 
Yellow and Or- 
ange 
Red and Purple 
Bluish Purple 
and Violet 
Blue 
6 Meadow Rue 45 Zygadenus 46 Canada Milk Vetch 
2 White-flowered Parsley 
7 Pennsylvanian Anemone 
26 Wolf-berry 
32 Yarrow 
26 Woltf-berry 
35 Milkweed 
2 Hairy Parsley 
g Silver-berry 
12 Puccoon 
17 Ox-eye 
1g and 20 Evening Primrose 
25 False Dandelion 
37 Yellow Flax 
43 Black-eyed Susan 
50 Goldenrods 
4 Indian Paintbrush 
22 Prairie Mallow 
35 Milkweed 
39 Lily 
44 Gerardia 
1 Pasque Flower 
to American Vetch 
28 Violet Prairie Clover 
48 Lead Plant 
13 Blue-eyed Grass 
34 Blue Lettuce 
48 Lead Plant 
5 False Solomon’s Seal 
16 Northern Bedstraw 
27 White Prairie Clover 
52 Aster 
29 Beard Tongue 
40 Larkspur 
3 Golden Violet 
11 Squaw-weed 
14 Meadow Parsnip 
18 Long-headed Coneflower 
24 Silver-weed 
30 Prairie Rocket 
41 Golden Aster 
49 Gum Plant 
51 Sunflowers 
21 Scarlet Gaura 
33 Sticks 
38 Rose 
42 Purple Coneflower 
47 Thistle 
8 Ground Plum 
23 Loco Weed 
31 Silver-leaved Psoralea 
53 Blazing Star 
15 Harebell 
36 Wild Flax 
52 Aster 
purple blossoms adorn the prairie while all else is still brown, 
and proclaim to the world that the day of the resurrection 
of plants is at hand. After blooming, the fruits (seeds) 
develop long feathery tails. 
The leaves are close to the 
flower, forming a sort of cup that might be mistaken for the 
