SOME PRAIRIE FLOWERS 95 
27. White Prairie Clover. — This plant 
stands more erect than our cultivated clovers 
and is a foot or two in height, the stems 
being terminated by flower stalks with dense 
spikes of tiny white flowers. It has com- 
pound leaves with 7 to 9 narrow leaflets. |” 
It belongs to the same family as the common 
clovers and serves to enrich the prairie soil, 
but the stems are too tough to be relished 
by stock. 
28. Violet Prairie Clover. — A somewhat 
larger plant than 
the preceding with 
purple flowers and 
smaller leaves; 
otherwise similar to the white prairie 
clover. 
i) is quite showy. 
shaped, but 
irregular and 2- 
lipped, as in the snap-dragon ; the upper 
lip is 2-lobed and the lower lip has three 
lobes. There are four ordinary stamens, 
the fifth one having been converted 
into a curious bearded tongue which 
gives the plant its name. 
30. Prairie Rocket: Western Wall- 
VIOLET PRAIRIE CLOVER 
flower. —Is a foot or two high, the | 2 
unbranched stem bearing a large cluster 
of bright yellow flowers at the end. 
WHITE PRAIRIE 
CLOVER 
29. Beard-tongue: Pentstemon. 
— Bears a purplish white flower that 
The corolla is bell- 
BEARD-TONGUE (a) AND 
PrairiE RocKET (6) 
