RED AND ORANGE FLOWERS 
Painted Cup (Castilleja coccinea). Figwort family. Spring, 
summer. 
A hairy stem, not over two feet high. Flowers small, yellow, 
corolla two-lipped. Root-leaves mostly without teeth, oblong; 
stem leaves deeply cut, leaves scarlet at top. Low ground. 
Named after Domingo Castillejo. 
Butterfly- weed {Asdepias tuber osa). Milkweed family. 
June to August. 
A leafy perennial, maximum height three feet, branching at 
the top and bearing many-flowered umbels of flowers like milk- 
weed (page 198). Leaves oblong to lance-shaped, almost with- 
out stalks. Dry fields. Sometimes the flower is bright-yellow 
instead of orange. This is the " pleurisy-root " of domestic 
medicine. 
Wild Columbine {Aquilegia canadensis). Crowfoot family. 
May, June. 
A branching perennial, a foot or two high, with showy pendu- 
lous (one to two inches) flowers (red, blue, white) ending the 
branches; sepals five, resembling petals; petals five, yellow 
inside, with short tip prolonged into hollow spurs ; pistils five. 
The lower leaves are long-stalked and doubly compounded in 
threes, the leaflets wedge-shaped, the upper with short stalks, 
or none, and variously lobed. 
"... Columbines, in purple dressed. 
Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest." — Bryant. 
Pitcher-plant {Sarracenia purpurea). Pitcher-plant family. 
June. 
A curious perennial with leafless stem, bearing one large (two 
inches) nodding flower, of five sepals and five petals, bent 
inwards. Leaves hollow, pitcher-shaped, from the base only. 
Bogs. Named for Dr. Michael Sarrasin. 
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