WILD FLOWERS PINK 
This Orchid ranges from North Carolina and Indiana 
northward to Canada. . 
PINK KNOTWEED. SMARTWEED. 
PERSICARIA 
Polygonum pennsylvanicum. Buckwheat Family. 
This exceedingly common and familiar annual is 
usually found in moist, open, waste soils, everywhere 
from the Gulf States to Minnesota, Ontario, and Nova 
Scotia. The branching, jointed stalk is smooth 
below and hairy above, and grows in an irregular 
erect or sprawling manner from one to three feet tall. 
It is often flattened on one side, and has hairy, tissue- 
like sheaths at the joints. The long, narrow and 
stoutly-ribbed tapering leaves are toothless, and 
alternate upon the stalk. The small, five-parted 
flowers vary from pink to white and are densely crowded 
into numerous, irregularly clustered, thick terminal 
spikes. The pink calyx takes the place of petals, and 
remains after the flowering period to enclose the 
flattened seeds as it did the buds. In her delightful 
book, “‘Nature’s Garden,” Neltje Blanchan truly says: 
“Familiarity alone breeds contempt for this plant, that 
certainly possesses much beauty.’ There are many 
varieties, closely related to this species, distributed 
through the country. 
CORN COCKLE. CORN ROSE. CORN CAMPION. 
CROWN-OF-THE-FIELD 
A grostémma Githago. Pink Family. 
The large, attractive magenta or purple red flowers 
of this terror of the wheatfields are pretty well known 
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