WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS 
GROUP XIV 
Leaves alternate, compound. Flowers neither in raceme, spike, 
nor umbel. 
Three-toothed Cinquefoil {Potentilla tridentata). Rose 
family. June to August. 
A small plant, under a foot high, with little clusters of flowers 
having five petals, five calyx-lobes, and five little bracts alter- 
nating with them. There are three leaflets, oblong, three- 
toothed at the end. From the Latin potens, powerful. 
Waterleaf {Hydrophyllum virginianum). Waterleaf 
family. May to August. 
A perennial herb, a foot or over, bearing bell-shaped flowers 
in curled-up, raceme-like clusters. Leaves with several divi- 
sions, coarsely toothed, pointed. Woods. From the Greek 
for water, and leaf, referring to the supposed cavity for water 
in each leaf (Britton and Brown). 
Tall Meadow Rue {Tkalictnim polygamum). Crowfoot 
family. July to September. 
A decorative perennial herb with average height of six feet, 
bearing small flowers in compound panicles; petals wanting, 
sepals resembling petals; stamens prominent. The foliage is 
delicate, the leaves two to three times compound, the leaflets 
numerous, rounded. The flowers are polygamous (perfect, 
staminate, and pistillate, on the same or on difterent plants). 
Common in meadows and roadsides in damp ground. The 
derivation of the generic name is uncertain. 
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