YELLOW AND ORANGE WILD FLOWERS 
common in swamps and wet soil, often along road- 
sides, during July and August, from New England to 
Florida, and west to Michigan, Nebraska, and Louisiana. 
PARTRIDGE PEA. WILD SENSITIVE PLANT 
Cassia nictitans. Pea Family. 
The singular foliage of this common annual herb 
is sensitive to the touch, and if roughly handled, or 
threshed with the foot, the numerous leaflets close 
together after the fashion of a fan, or remotely sug- 
gesting the operation of the shutters of a blind. They 
also close at night, and are thus said to “sleep.” This 
leafy plant is small and branching, and grows only 
from six to fifteen inches high, in dry fields and 
sandy wastes, where it often forms large patches. 
The alternating leaves are compounded of from twelve 
to forty-four blunt pointed and narrow-oblong leaflets, 
which are arranged in opposite pairs. The small, 
short-stemmed flowers have five spreading yellow 
petals and are borne in clusters of twos or threes in 
the axils of the leaves. They have five stamens, and 
the fruit matures in a small, hairy pod. This species 
is found from July to October, from Maine to Georgia, 
and west to Indiana, Kansas, and Texas. 
WILD INDIGO. YELLOW, OR INDIAN 
BROOM. HORSEFLY-WEED 
Baptista tinctoria. Pea Family. 
The very small, Clover-like leaves and bright yellow, 
butterfly-shaped flowers of this attractive, branching 
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