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Wild Flowers Worth Knowing · Neltje Blanchan — chapter 56 of 56 · ~2,130 words · public domain

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Betony, Wood Cardinal Flower Columbine, Wild Ground-nut Jack-in-the-Pulpit Lily, Red, Wood Oswego Tea Painted Cups, Scarlet Pine Sap Pitcher-plant Skunk Cabbage

GENERAL INDEX OF NAMES

Aaron’s rod Achillea Millefolium Actaea alba Adder’s tongue Agrostemma Githago Agueweed Alismaceae Alleluia Alsine media Althaea officinalis Alum-root Amaryllidaceae Amaryllis family American brooklime American cowslip American laurel American rhododendron American senna American white hellebore Amphicarpa monoica Anagallis arvensis Anaphalis margarilacea Anemone, Star Anemone, Wood Anemonella thalictroides Angel’s hair Anthemis Cotula Apios Apocynaceae Apocynum androsaemifolium Apple, May or Hog Apple, Thorn Aquilegia canadensis Araceae Aralia Araliaceae Arbutus, Trailing Arethusa Arisaema triphyllum Arrow-head, Broad-leaved Arum family Asclepiadaceae Asclepias Asters, Blue and Purple Aster, Golden Asters, White Azalea, Clammy Azalea, Pink, Purple, or Wild Azalea, White Balm, Bee or Fragrant Balmony Balsam, Wild Balsaminaceae Baneberry, White Bank thistle Baptisia tinctoria Barberry Barberry family Bay Beard-tongue, Hairy Bee balm Beech-drops Beech-drops, False Beefsteak plant Belamcanda chinensis Bell-bind Bellflower, Clasping Bell thistle Berberidaceae Berberis vulgaris Bergamot, Wild Berry, Scarlet or Snake Betony, Paul’s Betony, Wood Bindweed, Blue Bindweed, Hedge or Great Bird’s-foot violet Bird’s-nest Bird’s-nest, Yellow Birth-root Bishop’s cap Bitter-bloom Bitter-buttons Bitter-root Bittersweet Bitterweed Blackberry, Highbush Blackberry lily Black-eyed Susan Blind gentian Blister-flower Bloodroot Blowball Blue bells of Scotland Blue Curls Blue-devil Blue-eyed grass, Pointed Blue Mountain tea Blue-sailors Blue star Blue-stemmed golden-rod Blue-thistle Blue-weed Bluebell family Bluets Bokhara clover Boneset Boneset, Tall or Purple Borage family Boraginaceae Bottle gentian Bouncing Bet Boxberry Bramble Branching aster Brassica Brideweed Broad-leaved golden-rod Broad-leaved aster Broad-leaved kalmia Brooklime, American Broom, Yellow or Indigo Broom-rape family Bruisewort Brunella Buckthorn family Buckwheat family Bugbane, Tall Bulbous buttercup Bull thistle Bunchberry Bunk Burnet rose Burr thistle Butter-and-eggs Buttercups Butter-flower Butterfly-weed Button-ball shrub Button-bush Button thistle Calf-kill Calico bush Calmoun Calopogon Caltha palustris Camomile, Dog’s or Foetid Campanula rotundifolia Campanulaceae Campion, Corn or Red Campion, Starry Canada golden-rod Canada lily Canadian rockrose Canker-root Capsella Bursa-pastoris Cardinal flower Cardinal flower, Blue Carduus Carpenter weed Carrion-flower Carrot, Wild Caryophyllaceae Cassia marylandica Castalia odorata Castilleja coccinea Catchfly Ceanothus americanus Celandine, Greater Centaury, Rosy Cephalanthus occidentalis Chamaenerion angustifolium Charlock Checker-berry Chelidonium majus Chelone glabra Cherokee rose Chickweed, Common Chickweed, Red Chickweed wintergreen Chicory Chimaphila Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum Chrysopsis Cichorium Intybus Cimicifuga racemosa Cinquefoil, Common Cirsium Cistaceae Clammy Azalea Clasping bell-flower Claytonia Clematis, Virginia Clintonia Closed gentian Clover, Common red, Purple, Meadow or Honeysuckle Clover, White or Dutch Clover, White sweet, Bokhara, or Tree Cocash Cockle, Corn Cod-head Cohosh Cohosh, Black Columbine, Wild Commelina virginica Commelinaceae Compositae Composite family Cone-flower, Purple Convolvulaceae Convolvulus family Coolwort Coptis trifolia Corn campion Corn cockle, rose or campion Corn mustard Corn, Squirrel Cornaceae Cornel, Low or Dwarf Cornel, Silky Cornus Corpse-plant Cottonweed Cow lily Cow vetch Cowslip, American Crane’s-bill Crataegus coccinea Creeping wintergreen Crosswort Crowfoot family Crowfoot, Tall Crown-of-the-field Cruciferae Cuckoo flower Culver’s root or physic Curls, Blue Cuscuta gronovii Cypripedium acaule Cypripedium pubescens or hirsutum Daisy, Blue spring Daisy, Common Daisy fleabane Daisy-leaved fleabane Daisy, Michaelmas Daisy, Ox-eye Daisy, Pig-sty Daisy, Purple Daisy, White or Ox-eye Daisy, Yellow or Ox-eye Dandelion, Common Dasystoma flava Daucus carota Day-flower Deer berry Dense-flowered aster Devil’s paint-brush Devil’s trumpet Dew-plant Dicentra canadensis Dicentra Cucuilaria Dillweed Dock, Mullein Dodder, Gronovius’ or Common Dodecathon Meadia Dog-fennel Dog-tooth “violet” Dogbane family Dogbane, Spreading or Fly-trap Dog’s Camomile Dogwood family Dogwood, Flowering Dogwood, Swamp Downy false foxglove Downy yellow violet Dragon’s blood Droseraceae Dutch clover Dutchman’s breeches Dwarf cornel Dwarf wake-robin Dyer’s weed Ear-drops Early hawkweed Early purple aster Early saxifrage Eggs-and-bacon Elecampane English violet Epifagus virginiana Epigaea repens Epilobium angustifolium Ericaceae Erigeron Erythronium americanum Eupatorium Evening primrose Evening primrose family Everlasting, Pearly or Large-flowered Eye-bright Falcata comosa False beech-drops False foxglove, Downy False miterwort False sarsaparilla False Solomon’s seal Farewell summer Felonwort Field golden-rod Field lily Field milkwort Field mustard or kale Field parsnip Figwort family Fire-weed Five-finger Flag, Larger blue Flame lily Flannel plant Flat top Flaxweed Fleabane, Daisy Fleabane, Daisy-leaved Fleabane, Salt-marsh Fleur-de-lis Flower-de-luce Flowering dogwood Flowering wintergreen Fluellin Fly-trap dogbane Foam-flower Foetid camomile Forget-me-not Four-leaved loosestrife Foxglove, Downy false Fragrant balm Fragrant thistle Fringed gentian Fringed milkwort Frost-flower or Frost-wort Frost-weed Frost-weed, Hoary Frost-weed, Long-branched Fuller’s herb Fumariaceae Fumitory family Garget Gaultheria procumbens Gay orchis Gay wings Gentian, Closed, Blind, or Bottle Gentian family Gentian, Fringed Gentiana Gentianaceae Geraniaceae Geranium family Geranium Robertianum Geranium, Wild or Spotted Gerardia Gerardia, Large purple Ghost-flower Giant St. John’s-wort Giant sunflower Ginseng family Globe-flower Gold-thread Goldcups Golden Jerusalem Golden mouse-ear hawkweed Golden-rods Grass of Parnassus Grass pink Gravel-root Great bindweed Great laurel Great lobelia Great mullein Great rhododendron Great St. John’s-wort Great willow-herb Greater celandine Gronovius’ dodder Ground laurel Ground-nut Ground pink Groundhele Gulf orchis Habenaria blephariglottis Habenaria ciliaris Habenaria fimbriata or grandiflora Habenaria flava Hairbell Hairy beard-tongue Hairy golden aster Hamamelidaceae Hardhack Harebell Haw, Red Hawkweed, Early or Vein leaf Hawkweed, Golden mouse-ear Hawkweed, Orange or Tawny Hawthorn Heal-all Heal-all, High Heart-leaved aster Heart-of-the-earth Hearts, White Heath aster, White Heath family Hedge bindweed Hedge mustard Hedge pink Helenium autumnale Helianthemum Helianthus giganteus Hellebore Helmet-flower Hepatica Herb Robert Hibiscus Moscheutos Hieracium Highbush blackberry High heal-all Hoary frost-weed Hog apple Hog peanut Honey-balls Honey-bloom Honey lotus Honeysuckle clover Honeysuckle, Swamp Honeysuckle, Wild Hooded blue violet Hoodwort Horse thistle Horse-weed Horsefly-weed Horseheal Houstonia Huntsman’s cup Hypericaceae Hypericum Hypoxis hirsuta or erecta Hyssop, Wild Ice-plant Ill-scented wake-robin Immortelle Impatiens aurea or pallida Impatiens biflora or fulva Indian dipper Indian paint Indian paint-brush Indian pink Indian pipe Indian poke Indian root Indian sage Indian turnip Indian’s plume Indigo broom Indigo, Wild Ink-berry Innocence Inula Helenium Iridaceae Iris, Blue Iris family Iris versicolor Iron-weed Itch-weed Jack-in-the-pulpit Jamestown weed Jewel-weed Jimson weed Joe-Pye weed Jointweed, Pink Kalmia Kalmia, Broad-leaved Kidney liver-leaf Kidney-root Kingcup Kinnikinnick Knotweed, Pink Labiatae Lactuca canadensis Lady’s eardrops Lady’s nightcap Lady’s slippers Lady’s thimble Lady’s tresses or traces, Nodding Lamb-kill Lance-leaved violet Large aster Larger blue flag Large-flowered everlasting Large-flowered wake-robin Large purple gerardia Large yellow lady’s slipper Large yellow pond or water lily Late purple aster Laurel, Great Laurel, Ground Laurel, Mountain or American Laurel, Narrow-leaved Legouzia perfoliata Leguminosae Lemon, Wild Leonurus Cardiaca Leptandra virginica Lettuce, Tall or Wild Liliaceae Lilium canadense Lilium philadelphicum Lilium superbum Lily, Cow Lily family Lily, Large yellow pond or water Lily, Pond Lily, Sweet-scented white water Limodorum tuberosum Linaria Lion’s Tooth Liver-leaf Liverwort Lobelia family Lobelia, Great Lobelia, Red Lobeliaceae Long-branched frost-weed Loosestrife, Four-leaved or Whorled Lotus, Honey Lousewort Love-me, love-me-not Love me Love vine Low cornel Low purple aster Lupine, Wild Lupinus perennis Lysimachia quadrifolia Mad-dog skullcap Madder family Madnep Madweed Mallow family Mallow, Marsh Mallow rose Malvaceae Mandrake March violet Marguerite Marigold, Marsh Marsh buttercup Marsh mallow Marsh marigold Marsh pink Maruta Cotula May apple May weed Mayflower Meadow buttercup, Common Meadow clover Meadow-gowan Meadow lily Meadow rose Meadow-rues Meadow scabish Meadow-sweet Meadow violet Melilot, White Melilotus alba Michaelmas daisy Milfoil Milkweed, Common Milkweed family Milkweed, Orange Milkweed, Purple Milkwort, Common, Field, or Purple Milkwort family Milkwort, Fringed Mimulus ringens Mint family Mitchella vine Miterwort Miterwort, False Mitella diphylla Moccasin flowers Monarda Monkey-flower Monotropa Hypopitis Monotropa uniflora Moonshine Morning-glory, Wild Moss pink Moth mullein Mother’s heart Motherwort Mountain laurel Mountain mint Mountain tea Mouse-ear Mouse-ear hawkweed, Golden Mullein dock Mullein, Great Mullein, Moth Mustard family Mustards Myosotis scorpioides or palustris Nancy-over-the-ground Narrow-leaved laurel New England aster New Jersey tea Nigger-head Night willow-herb Nightshade Nightshade family Noble liverwort Nodding ladies’ tresses or traces Nodding wake-robin None-so-pretty Nosebleed Nuphar advena Nymphaea advena Nymphaea odorata Nymphaeaceae Oenothera biennis Old maid’s bonnets Old maid’s pink Old man’s beard Old man’s pepper Onagraceae Opium, Wild Orange-root Orchidaceae Orchis family Orchis, Gulf, Tubercled, or Small pale green Orchis, Large or Early purple-fringed Orchis spectabilis Orchis, White-fringed Orchis, Yellow-fringed Orobanchaceae Oswego tea Ox-eye daisy Oxalidaceae Oxalis acetosella Oxalis violacea Paint-brush, Devil’s Paint-brush, Indian Paint, Indian Painted cup, Scarlet Painted trillium Pale touch-me-not Papaveraceae Pardanthus chinensis Parnassia Parnassus, Grass of Partridge-berry Partridge vine Parsley family Parsnip, Wild or Field Pastinaca sativa Pasture thistle Paul’s betony Pea, Wild Peanut, Wild or Hog Pearly everlasting Peasant’s clock Pedicularis canadensis Pentstemon hirsutus or pubescens Pepperidge-bush Persicaria, Common Philadelphia lily Phlox subulata Physic, Culver’s Phytolaccaceae Pickerel-weed Pig-sty daisy Pigeon-berry Pimpernel, Scarlet Pine, Prince’s Pine sap Pink family Pink, Grass Pink, Ground or Moss Pink, Hedge or Old maid’s Pink, Indian Pink, Sea or Marsh Pink, Swamp Pink, Wild Pinxter flower Pipe, Indian Pipsissewa Pipsissewa, Spotted Pitcher-plant Pitcher-plant family Plantain, Snake or Poor Robin’s Pleurisy-root Plume golden-rod Plume thistle Plumed thistle Podophyllum peltatum Pointed blue-eyed grass Poison-flower Pokeweed family Polemoniaceae Polemonium family Polygala, Fringed Polygala, Purple Polygala sanguinea or viridescens Polygalaceae Polygonaceae Polygonatum biflorum Polygonum pennsylvanicum Pond lily Pontederia cordata Poor man’s weatherglass Poor Robin’s plantain Poppy family Portulacaceae Potentilla canadensis Pride of Ohio Primrose, Evening Primrose family Primrose-leaved violet Primulaceae Prince’s pine Prunella vulgaris Puccoon, Red Pulse family Purple-flowering raspberry Purple-fringed orchis, Large or Early Purple-stemmed aster Purslane family Quaker bonnets Quaker ladies Quaker lady Queen Anne’s lace Queen-of-the-meadow Ranunculaceae Ranunculus acris Raspberry, Purple-flowering or Virginia Rattlesnake-weed Red-root Red-stalked aster Rhamnaceae Rhododendron, American or Great Rhododendron maximum Rhododendron nudiflorum Rhododendron viscosum River-bush Roadside thistle Robert, Herb Robert’s plantain Robin, Red Robin’s plantain Rockrose, Canadian Rockrose family Root, Indian Rosa Rosaceae Rose, Burnet Rose, Corn Rose family Rose, Mallow Rose mallow, Swamp Rose of Plymouth Rose-pink Rose-tree Rose, Wild Rosemary, White Rosy centaury Round-leaved sundew Round-lobed liver-leaf Rubiaceae Rubus odoratus Rubus villosus Rudbeckia hirta Rue anemone Rutland beauty Sabbatia Sabbatia, Square-stemmed Sagittaria latifolia Sagittaria variabilis Sailors, Blue St. John’s-wort family St. John’s-worts Salt-marsh fleabane Sanguinaria canadensis Saponaria officinalis Sarracenaceae Sarsaparilla, Wild or False Saxifragaceae Saxifrage family Scabious, Sweet Scabish, Meadow Scoke Scorpion grass Scrophularaceae Scutellaria laterifolia Sea pink Seaside purple aster Self-heal Senna, Wild or American Sessile-flowered wake-robin Shanks, Red Sharp-toothed golden-rod Sheep-laurel Sheep-poison Shellflower Shepherd’s purse Shepherd’s weatherglass or clock Shooting star Showy orchis Showy purple aster Shrubby St. John’s-wort Side-saddle flower Silene pennsylvanica or caroliniana Silene stellata Silkweed Silky cornel Silver cap Silver leaf Simpler’s joy Sisymbrium officinale Sisyrinchium angustifolium Skullcap, Mad-dog Skunk cabbage Small pale green orchis Smartweed Smilacina racemosa Smilax herbacea Smooth aster Smooth yellow violet Smoother rose Snake berry Snake-flower Snake grass Snake-head Snake plantain Snakeroot, Black Snap weed Sneezeweed Snowball, Wild Soapwort Solanaceae Soldier’s cap Solidago Solomon’s seal Solomon’s seal, False Solomon’s zig-zag Spatterdock Spear thistle Specularia perfoliata Speedwell, Common Spice berry Spiderwort family Spignet Spiked willow-herb Spikenard Spikenard, Wild Spiraea salicifolia Spiraea tomentosa Spiranthes cernua Spoonwood Spotted geranium Spotted touch-me-not Spotted wintergreen or pipsissewa Spreading dogbane Spring beauty Spring daisy, Blue Spring orchis Square-stemmed sabbatia Squaw-berry Squirrel corn Squirrel cup Star anemone Star, Blue Star-flower Star-grass, Yellow Star, Shooting Starry aster Starry campion Starwort Starwort, Yellow Starworts Starworts, Blue and Purple Steeple bush Stellaria media Stemless lady’s slipper Stramonium Strangle-weed Succory Sundew family Sundial Sunflower, Swamp Sunflower, Tall or Giant Swallow-wort Swamp buttercup Swamp cabbage Swamp dogwood Swamp pink or honeysuckle Swamp rose Swamp rose-mallow Swamp sunflower Swanweed Sweet clover, White Sweet golden-rod Sweet scabious Sweet-scented white water-lily Sweet violet Sweet white violet Sweetbrier Symplocarpus foetidus Syndesmon thalictroides Tall boneset Tall bugbane Tall crowfoot Tall hairy golden-rod Tall lettuce Tall meadow-rue Tall sunflower Tanacetum vulgare Tank Tansy Tare, Blue, Tufted, or Cow Tawny hawkweed Tea, Mountain or Ground Tea, Oswego Thalictrum Thistle, Burr, Spear, Plume, Bank, Common, Horse, Bull, Blue, Button, Bell, or Roadside Thistle, Common or Plumed Thistle, Pasture or Fragrant Thorn apple Thorn, White or Scarlet fruited Thoroughwort, Common Thoroughwort, Purple Tiarella cordifolia Tinegrass Toadflax, Blue or Wild Toadflax, Yellow Touch-me-not family Trailing arbutus Traveller’s joy Tree clover Trientalis americana Trifolium pratense Trifolium repens Trilliums Trout lily True wood-sorrel Trumpet-leaf Trumpet weed Tubercled orchis Tufted buttercup Tufted vetch Turban lily Turk’s cap Turtle-head Twin-berry Umbelliferae Vein-leaf hawkweed Velvet plant Venus’ lady’s slipper Venus’ looking-glass Venus’ pride Veratrum viride Verbascum Verbenaceae Vernonia noveboracensis Veronica Vervain, Blue Vervain family Vetch, Blue, Tufted, or Cow Vicia Cracea Viola Violaceae Violet, Bird’s-foot Violet, Common purole, Meadow, or Hooded blue “Violet,” Dog-tooth Violet, Downy yellow Violet, English, March or Sweet Violet family Violet, Lance-leaved Violet, Primrose-leaved Violet, Smooth yellow Violet, Sweet white Violet wood-sorrel Viper’s bugloss Viper’s herb or grass Virginia clematis Virginia day-flower Virginia raspberry Virgin’s bower Wake-robin Water cabbage Water-lily family Water nymph Water-plantain family Weatherglass, Poor Man’s or Shepherd’s Whippoorwill’s shoe White-fringed orchis White-weed White-wreathed aster Whorled loosestrife Wicky Wild azalea Wild balsam Wild bergamot Wild carrot Wild columbine Wild geranium Wild honeysuckle Wild hyssop Wild indigo Wild lady’s slipper Wild lemon Wild lettuce Wild lupine Wild morning-glory Wild opium Wild parsnip Wild pea Wild peanut Wild pink Wild rose Wild sarsaparilla Wild senna Wild snowball Wild toadflax Wild yellow lily Willow-herb, Creator Spiked Willow-herb, Night Wind-flower Wintergreen, Chickweed Wintergreen, Creeping Wintergreen, Flowering Wintergreen, Spotted Witch-hazel family Wood anemone Wood aster Wood aster, White Wood betony Wood lily Wood lily, White Woodland golden-rod Wood-sorrel family Wood-sorrel, Violet Wood-sorrel, White or True Woody nightshade Wreath golden-rod Wrinkle-leaved golden-rod Yarrow Yellow-fringed orchis Yellow-top Yellow-weed Zig-zag golden-rod

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