PINK AND ROSE-COLORED FLOWERS 
Purple Loosestrife (Lythrmn Salicaria). Loosestrife • 
family. June to September. 
A tall perennial, with angled stem several feet high. Flowers 
(one-half inch or more) in showy spike; generally six purple- 
magenta petals. Leaves lance-shaped, sometimes in whorls of 
three. Swamps and banks. Greek for blood. 
Large Marsh Pink {Sdbatia dodecandra) . Gentian family. 
July to September. 
An annual or biennial, six inches to two feet high; flowers two 
inches across; divisions of the corolla broad; calyx with long 
lobes. Leaves narrow. Near coast. Sea Pink {Sahatia stellaris) 
is similar, but its corolla has five divisions. Square-stemmed 
Sabatia {Sahatia angularis) is similar, but with square stem 
and leaves broader. Sabbati, Italian botanist. 
GROUP IV 
Leaves whorled. 
Marsh Milkwort {Poly gala cruciata). Milkwort family. 
July to September. 
A low annual with four-angled stem. Little flowers in short 
spikes, sepals five, two large (wings) ; petals (united) three, 
middle keel-shaped ; leaves generally in fours, linear to inversely 
lance-shaped. Found in swamps. Greek for much milk. 
Joe Pye Weed. Trumpet Weed {Eupatorium purpureum). 
Composite family. August, September. 
A decorative perennial with tall, stout, spotted stem, some- 
times over eight feet. The dull pink flower-heads, containing 
small florets, in large clusters, corollas cylindrical, styles pro- 
jecting. Leaves three to six in a whorl, oblong-lance-shaped, 
coarse, toothed. Low ground. Common. 
See also Purple Loosestrife above, and Four-leaved 
Milkweed, page 200. 
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