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Descriptive Flora 



crepe, white-woolly square stems, and dense clusters of small 

 whitish flowers in the axils of the upper pairs of leaves. Corolla 

 2-lipped, small, white. Upper lip erect, notched. Lower 3-lobed, 

 spreading, the middle lobe largest and notched. Calyx small, 

 with 10 hooked lobes. Plants are perennial. In late fall, the 

 leaves die and fall off, the stems wither and look dead, but in 

 early January little spidery woolly buds appear and soon form 

 new branches. March to November. A common weed. Intro- 

 duced from Europe. 



Brazoria scntellarioides (Hook.) Engelm. & Gray. Brazoria. 



Twin-flower. 



Smooth, square-stemmed plants with many pale or rose- 

 purple or phlox purple flowers in 2 's along a simple or branched 

 raceme. Leaves simple, opposite. Blades oblong to oblong 

 lanceolate, 1 to 3 inches long, clasping, saw-toothed above the 

 middle. Corolla tubular, 2-lipped, about ^ inch long. Upper 

 lip broad, rounded, concave. Lower lip 3-lobed with the middle 

 lobe pale and dotted with purple. Lower 2-lobed lip of calyx 

 presses up against the upper 3-lobed lip forming an inflated fruit 

 which contains 4 seeds. April and May. In moist, rich soil. 

 Often confused with skullcap, which has a violet corolla with 

 lower lip dotted with purple, and a rounded lower calyx lip 

 meeting the upper in fruit. 



Brazoria truncate (Benth.) Engelm. & Gray. 



Plants 10 to 18 inches high, with stocky, square, puberuient 

 stems, thick, opposite, oblong leaves and terminal racemes of 

 speckled, faint purple, 2-lipped flowers. Leaves simple, opposite. 

 Blades oblong, iy 2 to 3" long, toothed above the middle, sessile. 

 Flowers showy, blossoming up the tips of the main stems or 

 branches about 1" from the ends. Calyx about equally 2-lipped. 

 Upper lip shallowly 3-lobed. Lower lip finely toothed. Corolla 

 tubular, 2-lipped, about 1" long. Upper lip pale purple, veined 

 with deeper purple, 2-lobed, the lobes frilled and unevenly 

 toothed. Lower lip 3-lobed, shorter, conspicuously and finely 



