PINK AND ROSE-COLORED FLOWERS 
Purple Flowering Raspberry {Ruhus odoratus). Rose 
family. June to August. 
A straggling plant three to five feet high, with clammy hairs 
on branches and calyx. The purplish-pink flower (two inches 
across) has five broad petals, five calyx-lobes with prolonged 
tips, and many stamens. The long-stemmed leaves are heart- 
shaped at base, broad, three- to five-lobed, toothed, middle 
lobe long. The fruit resembles a raspberry, but is hardly edible. 
Open woods. Rubus (ruber) means red. 
Steeple Bush. Hardback (Spiraea tomentosa) . Rose family. 
June to August. 
A plant with maximum height of four feet bears a pyramidal 
cluster of small, magenta-pink flowers, with five petals and 
numerous stamens. Stem of woody consistency with woolly 
surface. Flowers small; calyx five-cleft; five petals. Leaves 
egg-shaped to oval, toothed. Low ground. SpircBa signifies 
twisted, referring to the fruit of some of the genus. 
ROSES 
Sweetbrier. Wild Rose {Rosa rnbiginosa) . Rose family. 
June. 
The bush has a maximtim height of six feet, its stem is stout 
and has backward-bending prickles. The flowers are on short 
stalks, with five broad petals. The leaves have five to seven 
leaflets, rounded, doubly toothed. This is the Eglantine of the 
poets. Dog Rose {R. canina) is similar, but has singly -toothed. 
leaflets. Swamp Rose {R. Carolina) is a bushy plant, maximum 
height seven feet, with hooked thorns, leaflets ^iz'^ to nine, sharply 
toothed, with long stalks. Smooth Rose {R. blanda) is prac- 
tically thornless, with maximum height of four feet. Leaflets 
five to seven, with short stalks. 
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