WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS 
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Leaves opposite. Herbs. Stem four-sided. 
Water Horehound {Lycopus americanus). Mint family. 
June to September. 
An erect perennial with stem perhaps a foot high, with small 
flowers clustered in the axils. Calyx with five bristle-pointed 
lobes; corolla two-lipped; two stamens prominent, two hidden. 
Leaves pointed, irregularly toothed or incised; stem acutely 
angled. Common in wet places. Bugle Weed (L. virginicus) 
is obtusely angled and less deeply toothed. Named from the 
Greek for wolf, and foot. 
Lesser Stitchwort {Stellaria graminea) . Pink family. May 
to July. 
An herb with slender stem, nine to eighteen inches high, from 
running root-stalk. The flowers (under one-half inch) have five 
petals split in two, and five rather shorter sepals. The leaves 
are narrowly lance-shaped. Fields and roadsides. 
White Vervain {Verbena urticcefoUa) . Vervain family. 
June to September. 
An erect perennial, a few feet high, freely branching, and 
bearing minute white flowers in long slim spikes. Corolla 
tubular, five-cleft; calyx five-toothed. Leaves stalked, pointed, 
and coarsely toothed. Waste places. The Latin name for a 
sacred herb. 
Narrow-leaved Mountain Mint (Pycndnihemumflexuosum). 
Mint family. July to September. 
An erect perennial with smooth, slender stem, stiffly branch- 
ing, bearing many rounded heads of tiny flowers. The tubular 
corollas have two lips, lower three-lobed and purple-dotted; 
four stamens, two projecting. Leaves an inch or two long, 
pointed. Fields. Virginia Mountain Mint (P. virginiamim) 
has broader leaves. Named from the Greek for dense, and 
blossom. 
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