PINK AND RED GROUP 



American Germander. Wood Sage 



Teucrium canadense. — Family, Mint. Color, pink, crimson, or 

 sometimes cream color. Calyx and corolla, 2 -lipped. The corolla 

 seems to have no upper lip. It has 4 upper, nearly equal, small 

 lobes like little ears or horns, while below a broad, concave lip 

 projects. Stamens, 4, 2 being taller than the others. Pistil, 1. 

 Fruit, 4 nutlets, from the center of which the style stands. The 

 flowers, about 6 in a whorl, grow in terminal spikes, greenish buds 

 above, pink flowers lower down, while often, lowest of all, scarious, 

 withered corollas detract from the delicate beauty of the 6 to 12- 

 inch-long spike. Leaves, serrate, lance-shape to ovate, sharply 

 pointed at apex, short-petioled or sessile, opposite. Bracts ac- 

 company the flowers in the spike. 2 to 3 feet high. Plant cov- 

 ered with soft down. Stem, square. July to September. 



Rich, low ground and wet meadows. New England to 

 Nebraska and southward. I have found this pretty mint 

 common on the shores of Greenwood Lake, New Jersey, 

 and on the south shore, along the bay fronts, of Long Island. 

 A var. littordle, with smaller flowers, stiff" stem, lance-shaped 

 leaves, whole plant very softly-downy, occurs near the coast 

 from Maine to Florida. (See illustration, p. 288.) 



False Dragon Head 



Physostegia <virginikna. — Family, Mint. Color, light pink, 

 touched with crimson. Calyx, bell - shape, deeply 5 - toothed. 

 Corolla, tubular, with inflated throat, 2-lipped, the upper lip en- 

 tire, the lower 3 -parted, its middle lobe broad and notched, 1 

 inch long. Leaves, thick, serrate, lance-shape, sessile, opposite, 

 tapering at both ends. Stems, smooth, slender, wand-like, square. 

 June to September. 



Tall plants, 1 to 5 feet in height, with showy spikes of pink 

 flowers, crowded, almost overlapping one another. Often 

 cultivated. Wet soil, Quebec, south to Florida, Louisiana, 

 and westward. 



Red Hemp Nettle. Ironwort 



Galeopsis Ladanum, — Family, Mint. Color, pink or rose, some- 

 times spotted with yellow. Corolla, of the labiate type, the upper 

 lip arched, the lower 3-cleft, the 2 lateral lobes small, oval, the 

 middle one notched. Stem, long, 6 to 18 inches high, leafy, 

 whitish with small hairs. Leaves, 1 to 2 inches long, linear, 

 acute at both ends, serrate, petioled. Flower-clusters axillary, 

 on long peduncles. June to September. 



Waste places and fields, rather common from New Jersey 

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