VINES AND SHRUBS 



Trumpet Honeysuckle 



L, sempervirens is often cultivated. It is found wild from 

 Connecticut southward. Flowers, scentless, with tubular corollas 

 2 inches long, red outside, yellow within, in spiked whorls. Berries, 

 deep orange red. The upper leaves join around the stem; the 

 lower are on short petioles; all bright, shining, evergreen, smooth, 

 oblong or broadly oval. A twining and climbing shrub. 



L. glaucescens. — Color, pale yellow. Leaves, softly downy along 

 the veins underneath, sessile, the upper pair united and surround- 

 ing the stem. Corolla, 2-lipped, swollen at base, about i inch 

 long, with stamens and style protruding, covered with soft, small 

 hairs. May and June. 



Woods, Pennsylvania to Nebraska and northward. 



VINES AND SHRUBS WITH PINK OR RED BLOSSOMS 



Hardhack. Steeple Bush 



Spiraea tomentosa. — Family, Rose. Color, pink, rarely white. 

 Calyx, 4 to 5-lobed. Corolla, of 4 or 5 petals inserted upon the 

 top of the calyx-lobe. Stamens, many. Flowers, clustered in a 

 dense terminal panicle composed of separate, short racemes. 

 Leaves, ovate or oval, 1 to 2 inches long, serrate, short-petioled, 

 with the stem and petioles covered with a reddish, thick wool. 

 Stem, stiff and brittle. July to September. 



Low grounds, roadsides and fields, New England to Georgia 

 and westward to Kansas. The leaves are covered with white 

 hairs underneath. 



Purple Flowering Raspberry 



Rubus odoratus. — Family, Rose. Color, deep pink. Leaves, 

 alternate, 3 to 5-lobed, the middle lobe longer than the others, 

 all finely toothed, acute. Calyx, 5-parted, its lobes tipped with 

 a long, fine point; very clammy and hairy, often reddish. Petals, 

 5, large. Flowers, 2 inches across, several together, clustered. 

 Fruit, like a raspberry, of many small grains, flat and reddish, 

 falling away from the receptacle, not edible. Stem and petioles 

 sticky with glandular hairs, without thorns. June and July. 



A shrub 3 to 5 feet high. From northern New England to 

 Xew Jersey and Georgia, west to Michigan. (See illustration, 



p. 438.) 



Swamp Rose 



Rosa carotina. — Family, Rose. Color, pink. Leaves, of 5 to 9 

 leaflets, very finely toothed, acute at apex, dull green above, 



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