PINK AND ROSE-COLORED FLOWERS 
Purple-leaved Willow-herb {Epilohium coloratum). 
Evening Primrose family. Summer. 
An upright herb, maximum height three feet. Its tiny flowers 
nod at the end of apparently long, thick flower-stalks, really 
long, slender calyx-tubes, later to become seed-pods. Four 
petals, generally notched. Leaves (partly opposite) long and 
narrowly lance-shaped, toothed, with short stalks. Stem some- 
times downy at the top. Wet ground. Greek signifies upon a 
pod. 
PURPLE-LELAVED WILLOW-HERB 
[Epi labium coloratum) 
Climbing Hemp-weed (Mikania scandens). Composite 
family. Summer. 
The only member of the family climbing over bushes. The 
flowers are perfect, tubular, small, the flower-heads (each with 
involucre of four bracts and containing four bell-shaped florets) 
in clusters; the leaves are heart-shaped, sinuate, with stalks. 
Thickets on streams. Named for Joseph Gottfried Mikan. 
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