BLUE AND PURPLE WILD FLOWERS 
grassy meadows when the soil is dry and sandy, from 
June to August. The perennial or biennial, brittle 
leafy stalk is minutely hairy below and is noticeably 
twisted. It is stained with red inside the leaf joints, 
and grows from one to four feet high. The rather 
thick, pale green leaves are often irregularly notched. 
The short-stemmed basal ones are tufted, and are 
broad-oval shaped, with very blunt, rounding tips. 
The upper ones clasp the stalk alternatingly, and are 
oblong or lance-shaped, and smaller and more acutely 
pointed. The small, two-lipped, pale blue flowers 
are scattered along the spike for some distance, 
The lower lip is three-parted with two white swellings 
at the throat, and the smaller upper lip is divided 
by the cleft that separates the tube its entire length. 
The parts. are all sharply pointed and flaring. The 
green calyx is five-parted. This species is found from 
North Carolina, Louisiana, and Arkansas to Canada. 
BROOK LOBELIA 
Lobélia Kaélmit. Lobelia Family. 
This is a small, slender species, growing only from 
six to twenty inches high, in wet meadows and on wet 
banks, where it increases from perennial offshoots 
and blossoms from July to September. The smooth, 
light green stalk is erect, leafy and branching. The 
leaf is very narrow, blunt-pointed, and nearly toothless. 
The upper ones clasp the stalk. The small, light blue 
flowers are arranged in sparse, loose, terminal spikes. 
The three lobes of the lower lip are spotted with white 
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