BLUE AND PURPLE FLOWERS 
Marsh Cinquefoil. Purple Marshlocks (Potentilla 
palustris). Rose family. June to August. 
A perennial, six to eighteen inches high, its ruddy stem hairy 
above. Flowers loosely clustered; petals (five) small, egg- to 
lance-shaped; calyx with five pointed magenta-purple lobes, 
alternating with five bracts. Leaflets five to seven, oblong, 
sharp-toothed. Wet places. 
Purple Avens (Geum rivale). Rose family. May to July. 
A hairy perennial, two feet high. Brown-purple flowers 
nearly an inch broad; upright petals narrowing to a claw; 
calyx-lobes pointed; style jointed, fruit hairy. Upper leaves 
three-cleft, lower lyre-shaped. Wet places. 
PURPLE AVENS 
((Feum r/va/e) 
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