YELLOW OR YELLOWISH FLOWERS 
Silver Weed {Potentilla Anserlnd). Rose family. June to 
August. 
A perennial, extending by runners, with flowers (two-thirds 
to one inch broad) like buttercups, on long stalks; calyx five- 
lobed, the lobes alternating with bracts as in the other poten- 
tillas. Leaves from the root, with ten to twenty or more 
leaflets, oblong, toothed, silky beneath. Meadows. The name 
is from the diminutive of potens, strong, meaning medicinally. 
Goat's Rue (Tephrosia mrginiana). Pulse family. June, 
July. 
A perennial, sometimes reaching two feet. The flowers (one- 
half to three-fourths inch long) are papilionaceous, in terminal 
clusters, " greenish, cream-yellow standard, purplish-rose wings 
and curved keel of greenish-yellow tinged with rose " (Blanchan). 
Ten stamens united in a tube, or one separate; many linear- 
oblong leaflets. Sandy ground. Southern New England, West 
and South. 
Partridge Pea {Cassia ChamcBcrista) . Pulse family. 
July to September. 
A branching annual, a foot or two in height, with flowers over 
an inch broad, soHtary or few together, the five petals rounded, 
unequal, and sometimes with purple spots. There are many 
pairs oj narrowly oblong leaflets (perhaps over twenty), less than an 
inch long. Common southward in dry ground, not found in 
northern New England. 
Wild Senna ( Cassia marilandica) . Pulse family. July, 
August. 
A branching perennial, several feet high, resembling Partridge 
Pea, but having larger leaflets and smaller flowers, though the 
flower of Partridge Pea appears smaller in the greatly re- 
duced cut. Six to eight pairs oj lance-shaped to oblong leaflets, 
an inch or two in length, pinnately arranged. Wet ground. 
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