WILD FLOWERS PINK 
it twines and trails extensively over the ground or low 
shrubbery, from June to August. The main stem 
grows from three to ten feet in length, and is round, 
leafy, and generally smooth, or sometimes minutely 
hairy. The slender stemmed leaves are triangular in 
outline with squared, angular lobes at the base, and 
are tapering toward the tip. The large, bell-shaped 
flowers are usually pink, shading to white at the base 
of the tube, with five tapering white stripes radiating 
from the centre and extending to the edge of the 
corolla. Five stamens and a pistil, all white, are 
set within the tube. The five green calyx parts 
are nearly enclosed by two large cuppéd bracts. The 
solitary flowers are set on the tips of slender stems. 
They bloom extensively, and show a preference for 
moist soil, from Nova Scotia to North Carolina, and 
west to Minnesota, Utah, and Nebraska. 
GROUND PINK. MOSS PINK 
Phléx subsulata. Phlox Family. 
The thick, evergreen tufts of the Moss Pink, which 
spread over dry, sandy, or rocky ground and hillsides, 
forming dense moss-like patches, are fairly smothered 
with the dark-eyed, pink, purple, or white blossoms 
from April to June. The slender, creeping, leafy 
stalk is much branched, and grows only several inches 
high. The numerous stiff, sharp-pointed, spreading 
green leaves are very narrow, and are set upon the 
stem in frequent, whorling clusters. The five spread- 
ing, wedge-shaped divisions of the tubular corolla are 
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