WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS 
GROUP XVII 
Leaves alternate, simple. Flowers not in raceme or spike. 
Creeping or climbing plant. 
The familiar Winter green is included here because the visible 
plants are branches of a deep horizontal stem. 
Moonseed (Menispermum canadense) . Moonseed family. 
June, July. 
A delicate climber bearing small flowers in open axillary 
clusters; sepals and petals similar (maximum number of each 
eight) but petals smaller; stamens (numerous) and pistils on 
different plants (dioecious). The leaves are three- to seven- 
angled, or lobed, shield-form, with stalk attached to lower 
surface. Woods. West Quebec, West and South. 
Arrow-leaved Tear- thumb {Polygonum sagittatum). Buck- 
wheat family. July to September. 
An inconspicuous annual with small square stem, generally 
climbing by its backward-bending prickles. The flowers are 
tiny, pale-rose or white, with no corollas, in head or dense 
cluster. The leaves are arrow-shaped. Low grounds. 
Water Pennjrwort ( Hydrocotyle americana) . Parsley 
family. All summer. 
An inconspicuous plant with fragile stem that creeps over 
the ground. The tiny flowers, in close little clusters (umbels), 
in the axils of the kidney-shaped leaves, have five petals, five 
stamens. Damp places. From the Greek for water-cup. 
White Clover {Trifolium repens). Pulse family. May 
to October. 
A perennial with stems spreading over the ground sending 
up leaf-stalks and flower-stalks bearing spherical flower-heads 
with papilionaceous florets. Leaflets somewhat inversely heart- 
shaped. Fields, etc. 
152 
