HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



False Gromwell 



Onosmbdiwn virginianum. — Family, Borage. Color, greenish 

 yellow. The 5 long, narrow lobes of the tubular corolla are 

 bristly on the outside. Stamens, 5, with somewhat arrow-shaped, 

 pointed anthers. Pistil, with a thread-like, projecting style. 

 Fruit, 4 one-seeded nutlets. Leaves, rough, about 2 inches long, 

 narrow, the lower tapering at base, sessile, with parallel veins. 

 Racemes of flowers terminal, at first, like most of this genus, 

 curled under, straightening as the flowers unfold. Summer. 



Dry banks and rocky hills, from Massachusetts to Florida. 



Giant Hyssop 



Agastache nepetoides. — Family, Mint. Color, pale greenish 

 yellow. Calyx, bell-shaped, with 5 unequal teeth. Corolla, 

 2 -lipped, the upper lip 2-lobed, lower 3 -divided, with the middle 

 lobe wavy, toothed. Stamens, 4, in pairs, which cross one an- 

 other. Flowers, in terminal spikes, 2 to 6 inches long, thickly in- 

 terspersed with long, pointed bracts. Leaves, coarsely toothed, 

 petioled, ovate, acute. 



A very tall mint, 6 feet high or less, with a stout, smooth, 

 sharply 4-angled stem. Vermont to North Carolina, west 

 to Texas. 



Horse Mint 



Monirda punctata, — Family, Mint. Color, yellow, spotted 

 with purple. Calyx, tubular, downy, especially hairy in throat, 

 with short teeth. Corolla, tubular, its limb 2-divided, the upper 

 lip long, narrow, arching over the stamens, deeply spotted with 

 purple; the lower unequally 3 -divided, spreading. Flowers, in 

 heads or clusters, axillary or terminal, surrounded by and mixed 

 with floral bracts which are more showy than the flower, yellow 

 and purple. Stem, perennial, rough, hairy, 2 to 3 feet high. 

 Leaves, lance-shaped or linear, acute at both ends, petioled, dis- 

 tantly serrate. Small ones, sessile, are clustered in the axils of 

 the larger ones. July to October. 



Dry fields, open woods from Long Island and southern 

 New York to Florida, and westward to Wisconsin and 

 Texas. 



Horse Balm. Stone-root. Rich-weed 



CollinsdnU canadensis Family, Mint. Color, lemon yellow. 



Calyx, 2-lipped, the upper lip 3-toothed, the lower 2-cleft. Corolla, 

 1 inch long, tubular, with 4 upper, almost equal lobes, and 1 lower, 

 quite long and large, pendent, cut and fringed. Stamens, 2, 

 sometimes 4, standing well out from the flower. Flowers, on 



