*Native Plants* 
ANEMONE (decapetala) Windflower 
This, one of the daintiest of our flowers, 
was named for Anemos, the Wind God 
of the Greeks. Soon after the Dog¬ 
toothed Violet in the early spring, we 
may expect to find this flower under 
trees, by the wayside or even in a sunny 
pasture. "Rising directly from the ob¬ 
long tuberous root are one to several 
slender three-forked leafstalks, with 
three leaflets at the end of each fork” 
(Schultz). The slender flower stalk 
coming from the cluster of root leaves, 
each bearing a circle of deeply cut, 
leaf-like bracts midway between the 
blossom and the ground. The lovely 
flower about an inch across has twelve 
sepals and petals, is sometimes pink 
underneath, varies in color from white 
to blue or bluish purple. They like 
partial shade and a rich, loamy soil. 
ASCLEPIA (tuberosa) Butterfly Weed, 
Pleurisy Root. 
This is our most beautiful milkweed 
and has a wide distribution over the 
country. Its rough, hairy, leafy stems, 
- usually erect, spring from a deep tuber¬ 
ous root. They branch at the summit, 
bearing umbles of bright orange flowers. 
They like the soil of meadow and road¬ 
side, and sun. Unlike most of the fam¬ 
ily, the juice is not milky. It attracts 
butterflies, especially the Monarch, and 
the Indians thought it had medicinal 
qualities, so used it to cure pleurisy, 
hence, its two common names. Asclepia 
is from the Greek God of Medicine, 
Asclepius. 
ARGEMONE (alba) Prickly Poppy or 
Mexican Poppy 
This is a rather tall branching stout¬ 
stemmed plant with long, prickly, pale 
green leaves. The flowers, from two t* 
four inches across, have delicate broad, 
white petals and yellow centers, and are 
very beautiful. They are annuals, but 
in our gardens a plant often lives 
through the second summer. They en¬ 
joy good soil and in return will give an 
abundance of bloom. They reseed them¬ 
selves. 
BOLTONIA (asteroides) 
False Chamomile 
This tall, fall-blooming plant has nu¬ 
merous wiry branches, and each small 
one tipped with a white, aster-like 
flower. Given a good soil and moisture, 
its mass of flowers and graceful form 
will more than pay for the little care 
it requires. There is also a pink variety. 
CALLIRHOE (involucrata) 
Poppy Mallow, Wine Cup 
This bright, showy perennial comes 
from a tuberous root, liking best good, 
loamy soil and some shade. It is a 
trailer, has long petioled leaves, deeply 
cleft. The five petaled, fringed, wine- 
colored flowers are borne on long stems 
from the axils of the leaves. Planted in 
a bed two feet apart, they cover the 
ground and make a lovely picture. 
Callirhoe is from Greek mythology and 
the name of a spring in Athens. 
CENTAUREA (americana) 
Basket Flower 
A fine native annual, bearing large, al¬ 
most flat rose-lavender, thistle-like 
blossoms. It grows about three feet high 
and has coarse leaves. It is used with 
other bedding plants, but makes the 
finest display in a bed or row. It bright¬ 
ens our fields and waysides, where seed 
may be gathered in the fall. 
*See page 3 3. 
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