WILD FLOWERS BLUE AND PURPLE 
is soft and downy to the touch. The rather large, 
light, bluish purple, tubular flowers are two-lipped. 
The upper lip, which arches over the four unequal 
stamens and pistil, is erect and notched at the middle. 
The spreading lower lip, which is spotted with dark 
purple, is three-lobed, the middle one being much 
enlarged. The long, ribbed, tubular calyx is unequally 
five-parted. The flowers are borne in sparse clusters 
from the axils of the leaves. The Ground-ivy often 
forms dense, green mats, and is found in blossom from 
March to May, from Newfoundland, Ontario and 
Minnesota, south to Georgia and Kansas. 
SELF-HEAL. HEAL-ALL. BLUE CURLS. THIM- 
BLE-FLOWER. ALL-HEAL. CARPENTER’S- 
HERB. HEART-OF-THE-EARTH. BRUNELLA: 
Prunélla vulgaris. Mint Family. 
One of the commonest and most widely ranged of 
all plants. Along dusty roadsides, cowpaths, and in 
fields, woods and waste places everywhere, this familiar, 
low-growing perennial flourishes with little effort. 
The thick, round, elongated flower head blossoms 
sparingly as it lengthens, from spring to fall. The 
usually smooth, slender, leafy and occasionally branch- 
ing stalk, is usually too weak to hold itself erect, and 
lies sprawling in the grass. The four-sided stalk is 
deeply grooved on two opposite sides. The smooth, 
oblong, lance-shaped leaves have a long, tapering tip 
and a narrowed base. They are rather thin, and their 
margins are often slightly toothed. They occur in 
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