Wild Flowers Worth Knowing

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You can also find out about how to make a donation to Project Gutenberg, and how to get involved. **Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts** **eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971** *****These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!***** Title: Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Author: Neltje Blanchan et al Release Date: September, 2005 [EBook #8866] [This file was first posted on August 16, 2003] Edition: 10 Language: English Character set encoding: iso-8859-1 *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, WILD FLOWERS WORTH KNOWING *** E-text prepared by Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders WILD FLOWERS WORTH KNOWING ADAPTED BY ASA DON DICKINSON From _Nature's Garden_ BY NELTJE BLANCHAN _1917_ PREFACEA still more popular edition of what has proved to the author to be a surprisingly popular book, has been prepared by the able hand of Mr. Asa Don Dickinson, and is now offered in the hope that many more people will find the wild flowers in Nature's garden all about us well worth knowing. For flowers have distinct objects in life and are everything they are for the most justifiable of reasons, _i.e._, the perpetuation and the improvement of their species. The means they employ to accomplish these ends are so various and so consummately clever that, in learning to understand them, we are brought to realize how similar they are to the fundamental aims of even the human race. Indeed there are few life principles that plants have not worked out satisfactorily. The problems of adapting oneself to one's environment, of insuring healthy families, of starting one's children well in life, of founding new colonies in distant lands, of the cooperative method of conducting business as opposed to the individualistic, of laying up treasure in the bank for future use, of punishing vice and rewarding virtue--these and many other problems of mankind the flowers have worked out with the help of insects, through the ages. To really understand what the wild flowers are doing, what the scheme of each one is, besides looking beautiful, is to give one a broader sympathy with both man and Nature and to add a real interest and joy to life which cannot be too widely shared. Neltje Blanchan. _Oyster Bay, New York, January_ 2, 1917. _Editor's Note_.--The nomenclature and classification of Gray's New Manual of Botany, as rearranged and revised by Professors Robinson and Fernald, have been followed throughout the book. This system is based upon that of Eichler, as developed by Engler and Prantl. A variant form of name is also sometimes given to assist in identification.--A.D.D. CONTENTS Preface, and Editor's Note WATER-PLANTAIN FAMILY _(Alismaceae)_ Broad-leaved Arrow-head ARUM FAMILY _(Araceae)_ Jack-in-the-Pulpit; Skunk Cabbage SPIDERWORT FAMILY _(Commelinaceae)_ Virginia or Common Day-flower PICKEREL-WEED FAMILY _(Pontederiaceae)_ Pickerel Weed LILY FAMILY _(Liliaceae)_ American White Hellebore; Wild Yellow, Meadow, Field or Canada Lily; Red, Wood, Flame or Philadelphia Lily; Yellow Adder's Tongue or Dog-tooth "Violet"; Yellow Clintonia; Wild Spikenard or False Solomon's Seal; Hairy, True or Twin-flowered Solomon's Seal; Early or Dwarf Wake-Robin; Purple Trillium; Ill-scented Wake-Robin or Birth-root; Carrion flower AMARYLLIS FAMILY _(Amaryllidaceae)_ Yellow Star-grass IRIS FAMILY _(Iridaceae)_ Larger Blue Flag, Blue Iris or Fleur-de-lis; Blackberry Lily; Pointed Blue-eyed Grass, Eye-bright or Blue Star ORCHIS FAMILY _(Orchidaceae)_ Large Yellow Lady's Slipper, Whippoorwill's Shoe or Yellow Moccasin Flower; Moccasin Flower or Pink, Venus' or Stemless Lady's Slipper; Showy, Gay or Spring Orchis; Large, Early or Purple-fringed Orchis; White-fringed Orchis; Yellow-fringed Orchis; Calopagon or Grass Pink; Arethusa or Indian Pink; Nodding Ladies' Tresses BUCKWHEAT FAMILY _(Polygonaceae)_ Common Persicaria, Pink Knotweed or Jointweed or Smartweed POKEWEED FAMILY _(Phytolaccaceae)_ Pokeweed, Scoke, Pigeon-berry, Ink-berry or Garget PINK FAMILY _(Caryophyllaceae)_ Common Chickweed; Corn Cockle, Corn Rose, Corn or Red Campion, or Crown-of-the-Field; Starry Campion; Wild Pink or Catchfly; Soapwort, Bouncing Bet or Old Maid's Pink PURSLANE FAMILY _(Portulacaceae)_ Spring Beauty or Claytonia WATER-LILY FAMILY _(Nymphaeaceae)_ Large Yellow Pond or Water Lily, Cow Lily or Spatterdock; Sweet-scented White Water or Pond Lily CROWFOOT FAMILY _(Ranunculaceae)_ Common Meadow Buttercup, Tall Crowfoot or Cuckoo Flower; Tall Meadow Rue; Liver-leaf, Hepatica, Liverwort or Squirrel Cup; Wood Anemone or Wind Flower; Virgin's Bower, Virginia Clematis or Old Man's Beard; Marsh Marigold, Meadow-gowan or American Cowslip; Gold-thread or Canker-root; Wild Columbine; Black Cohosh, Black Snakeroot or Tall Bugbane; White Bane-berry or Cohosh BARBERRY FAMILY _(Berberidaceae)_ May Apple, Hog Apple or Mandrake; Barberry or Pepperidge-bush POPPY FAMILY _(Papaveraceae)_ Bloodroot; Greater Celandine or Swallow-wort FUMITORY FAMILY _(Fumariaceae)_ Dutchman's Breeches; Squirrel Corn MUSTARD FAMILY _(Cruciferae)_ Shepherd's Purse; Black Mustard PITCHER-PLANT FAMILY _(Sarraceniaceae)_ Pitcher-plant, Side-saddle Flower or Indian Dipper SUNDEW FAMILY _(Dioseraceae)_ Round-leaved Sundew or Dew-plant SAXIFRAGE FAMILY _(Saxifragaceae)_ Early Saxifrage; False Miterwort, Coolwort or Foam Flower; Grass of Parnassus WITCH-HAZEL FAMILY _(Hamamelidaceae)_ Witch-hazel ROSE FAMILY _(Rosaceae)_ Hardhack or Steeple Bush; Meadow-Sweet or Quaker Lady; Common Hawthorn, White Thorn, Red Haw or Mayflower; Five-finger or Common Cinquefoil; High Bush Blackberry, or Bramble; Purple-flowering or Virginia Raspberry; Wild Roses PULSE FAMILY _(Leguminosae)_ Wild or American Senna; Wild Indigo, Yellow or Indigo Broom, or Horsefly-Weed; Wild Lupine, Sun Dial or Wild Pea; Common Red, Purple, Meadow or Honeysuckle Clover; White Sweet, Bokhara or Tree Clover; Blue, Tufted or Cow Vetch or Tare; Ground-nut; Wild or Hog Peanut WOOD-SORREL FAMILY _(Oxalidaceae)_ White or True Wood-sorrel or Alleluia; Violet Wood-sorrel GERANIUM FAMILY _(Geraniaceae)_ Wild or Spotted Geranium or Crane's-Bill; Herb Robert, Red Robin or Red Shanks MILKWORT FAMILY _(Polygalaceae)_ Fringed Milkwort or Polygala or Flowering Wintergreen; Common Field or Purple Milkwort TOUCH-ME-NOT FAMILY _(Balsaminaceae)_ Jewel-weed, Spotted Touch-me-not or Snap Weed BUCKTHORN FAMILY _(Rhamnaceae)_ New Jersey Tea MALLOW FAMILY _(Malvaceae)_ Swamp Rose-mallow or Mallow Rose ST. JOHN'S-WORT FAMILY _(Hypericaceae)_ Common St. John's-wortROCKROSE FAMILY _(Cistaceae)_ Long-branched Frost-weed or Canadian Rockrose VIOLET FAMILY _(Violaceae)_ Blue and Purple Violets; Yellow Violets; White Violets EVENING PRIMROSE FAMILY _(Onagraceae)_ Great or Spiked Willow-herb or Fire-weed; Evening Primrose or Night Willow-herb GINSENG FAMILY _(Araliaceae)_ Spikenard or Indian Root PARSLEY FAMILY _(Umbelliferae)_ Wild or Field Parsnip; Wild Carrot or Queen Anne's Lace DOGWOOD FAMILY _(Cornaceae)_ Flowering Dogwood HEATH FAMILY _(Ericaceae)_ Pipsissewa or Prince's Pine; Indian Pipe, Ice-plant, Ghost flower or Corpse-plant; Pine Sap or False Beech-drops; Wild Honeysuckle, Pink, Purple or Wild Azalea, or Pinxter-flower; American or Great Rhododendron, Great Laurel, or Bay; Mountain or American Laurel or Broad-leaved Kalmia; Trailing Arbutus or Mayflower; Creeping Wintergreen, Checker-berry or Partridge-berry PRIMROSE FAMILY _(Primulaceae)_ Four-leaved or Whorled Loosestrife; Star-flower; Scarlet Pimpernel, Poor Man's Weatherglass or Shepherd's Clock; Shooting Star or American Cowslip GENTIAN FAMILY _(Gentianaceae)_ Bitter-bloom or Rose-Pink; Fringed Gentian; Closed or Blind Gentian DOGBANE FAMILY _(Apocynaceae)_ Spreading or Fly-trap Dogbane MILKWEED FAMILY _(Asclepiadaceae)_ Common Milkweed or Silkweed; Butterfly-weed CONVOLVULUS FAMILY _(Convolvulaceae)_ Hedge or Great Bindweed; Gronovius' or Common Dodder or Strangle-weed POLEMONIUM FAMILY _(Polemoniaceae)_ Ground or Moss Pink BORAGE FAMILY _(Boraginaceae)_ Forget-me-not; Viper's Bugloss or Snake-flower VERVAIN FAMILY _(Verbenaceae)_ Blue Vervain, Wild Hyssop or Simpler's JoyMINT FAMILY _(Labiatae)_ Mad-dog Skullcap or Madweed; Self-heal, Heal-all, Blue Curls or Brunella; Motherwort; Oswego Tea, Bee Balm or Indian's Plume; Wild Bergamot NIGHTSHADE FAMILY _(Solanaceae)_ Nightshade, Blue Bindweed or Bittersweet; Jamestown Weed, Thorn Apple or Jimson Weed FIGWORT FAMILY _(Scrophulariaceae)_ Great Mullein, Velvet or Flannel Plant or Aaron's Rod; Moth Mullein; Butter-and-eggs or Yellow Toadflax; Blue or Wild Toadflax or Blue Linaria; Hairy Beard-tongue; Snake-head, Turtle-head or Cod-head; Monkey-flower; Common Speedwell, Fluellin or Paul's Betony; American Brooklime; Culver's-root; Downy False Foxglove; Large Purple Gerardia; Scarlet Painted Cup or Indian Paint-brush; Wood Betony or Loosewort BROOM-RAPE FAMILY (_Orobanchaceae_) Beech-drops MADDER FAMILY (_Rubiaceae_) Partridge Vine or Squaw-berry; Button-bush or Honey-balls; Bluet