YELLOW OR YELLOWISH FLOWERS 
Yellow Wood Sorrel {Oxalis stricta). Wood Sorrel family. 
April to September. 
A low, branching, delicate annual or perennial, flowers gen- 
erally two or three together on long stalks; five petals (under 
one-half inch long), reddened at the base. Three leaflets pal- 
mately arranged on a long stalk, inversely heart-shaped, shut- 
ting when handled. Common in woods and open places. 
Silvery Cinquef oil (P(9/ew^i7/aarg^n^^a). Rose family. May 
to September. 
An upright plant, generally under a foot, tufted, with delicate 
stem. Flowers (one-fourth inch) clustered, with rounded petals, 
five calyx-lobes, and five bracts alternating. Leaves, excepting 
the upper, with stalks and five (palmate) leaflets, wedge-shaped 
at the base and deeply toothed at the apex; white underneath. 
Dry ground, everywhere. 
Rough Cinquefoil (Potenttlla monspeliensis, var. norvegica). 
Rose family. June to September. 
A coarsely hairy, branching weed, annual or biennial, one to 
three feet high. Flowers, not over one-half inch broad, in leafy 
clusters, with five petals, broad at the end; sepals apparently 
ten, really five with five bracts. Leaves divided into three 
coarsely toothed leaflets. Dry ground. Common. 
Yellow Avens {Geum strictum). Rose family. June to 
August. 
A hairy perennial, averaging three and one-half feet. The 
flowers, under one inch broad, have five broad, inversely egg- 
shaped petals and five sepals, bent back. The stem-leaves have 
short stalks, or none, and are made up of three to five leaflets, 
toothed and pointed. The root-leaves have loyig stalks and five to 
seven leaflets pinnately arranged. Meadows. 
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