(Sanguinaria Canadensis) Poppy family Flowers - Pure white, rarely pinkish, golden centered, 1 to 1 1/2 in. across, solitary, at end of a smooth naked scape 6 to 14 in. tall. Calyx...
(Triadenum Virginicum; Elodea Virginica of Gray) St.-John's-wort family Flowers - Pale magenta, pink, or flesh color, about 1/2 in. across, in terminal clusters, or from leaf axils...
(Brassica nigra) Mustard family Flowers - Bright yellow, fading pale, 1/4 to 1/2 in. across, 4-parted, in elongated racemes; quickly followed by narrow upright 4-sided pods about 1...
(Chelone glabra) Figwort family Flowers - White tinged with pink, or all white, about 1 in. long, growing in a dense terminal cluster. Calyx 5-parted, bracted at base; corolla irre...
(Bicuculla Canadensis) Poppy family Flowers - Irregular, greenish white tinged with rose, slightly fragrant, heart-shaped, with 2 short rounded spurs, over 1/2 in. long, nodding on...
(Leptandra Virginica; Veronica Virginica of Gray) Figwort family Flowers - Small, white or rarely bluish, crowded in dense spike-like racemes 3 to 9 in. long, usually several spike...
(Silphium perfoliatum) Thistle family Plower-heads - Yellow, nearly flat; 2 to 3 in. across; 20 to 30 narrow, pistillate ray florets, about 1 in. long, overlapping in 2 or 3 series...
Class and Order. Hexandria Monogynia. Generic Character. Cor. hexapetaloidea, irregularis. Filamenta fauci tubi inserta, declinata, inæqualia proportione vel directione. Linn. Fil....
(Cimicifuga racemosa) Crowfoot family [Buttercup family] Flowers - Fetid, feathery, white, in an elongated wand-like raceme, 6 in. to 2 ft. long, at the end of a stem 3 to 8 ft. hi...
(Veronica Americana) Figwort family Flowers - Light blue to white, usually striped with deep blue or purple structure of flower similar to that of V. officinalis, but borne in long...
Class and Order. Didynamia Gymnospermia. Generic Character. Cor. labium superius (nullum) ultra basin 2-partitum, divaricatum ubi stamina. Specific Character and Synonyms. TEUCRIUM...
Class and Order. Syngenesia Polygamia Superfloa. Generic Character. Recept. nullum. Pappus simplex. Cal. simplex polyphyllus æqualis. Specific Character and Synonyms. CINERARIA Ame...
tuberosus), often called WILD SUNFLOWER, too, has an interesting history similar to the dark-centered, common garden sunflower's. In a musty old tome printed in 1649, and entitled...
(Ceanothus Americanus) Buckthorn family Flowers - Small, white, on white pedicels, crowded in dense, oblong, terminal clusters. Calyx white, hemispheric, 5-lobed; petals, hooded an...
(Calla palustris) Arum family Flowers - Minute, greenish yellow, clustered on a cylinder-like, fleshy spadix about 1 in. long, partly enfolded by a large, white, oval, pointed, ere...
Class and Order. Decandria Pentagynia. Generic Character. Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala Unibus connect. Caps. Anglos discerns, 5-Gina. Specific Character and Synonyms. OXALIS Carina scapi...
(Rubus odoratus) Rose family Flowers - Royal purple or bluish pink, showy, fragrant, 1 to 2 in. broad, loosely clustered at top of stem. Calyx sticky-hairy, deeply 5-parted, with l...
"A plant is not to be studied as an absolutely dead thing, but rather as a sentient being.... To measure petals, to count stamens, to describe pistils without reference to their fu...
Class and Order. Syngenesia Polygamia Frustranea. Generic Character. Recept. paleaceum, planum. Pappus 2-phyllus. Cal. imbricatus, subsquarrosus. Specific Character and Synonyms. H...
(Ranunculus acris) Crowfoot family Flowers - Bright, shining yellow, about 1 in. across, numerous, terminating long slender footstalks. Calyx of 5 spreading sepals; corolla of 5 pe...
(Rudbeckia hirta) Thistle family Flower-heads - From 10 to 20 orange-yellow neutral rays around a conical, dark purplish-brown disk of florets containing both stamens and pistil. S...
Class and Order. Pentandria Monogynia. Generic Character. Corolla infundibuliformis: Stamina squamis basin corollæ claudentibus inserta. Stigma 5-fidum. Sem. 1. oblongum tunicatum....
(Hydrophyllum Virginicum) Waterleaf family Flowers - White or purplish tinged, in a single or forking cluster on a long peduncle. Calyx deeply 5-parted, the spreading segments very...
(Cornus florida) Dogwood family Flowers - (Apparently) large, white or pinkish, the four conspicuous parts simulating petals, notched at the top, being really bracts of an involucr...
Class and Order. Polyandria Polygynia. Generic Character. Cal. 0. Petala circiter 14. Capsulæ plurimæ, ovatæ, polyspermæ. Specific Character and Synonyms. TROLLIUS asiaticus coroll...
(Rubus villosus) Rose family Flowers - White, 1 in. or less across, in terminal raceme-like clusters. Calyx deeply 5-parted, persistent; 5 large petals; stamens and carpels numerou...
TEA; GROUND TEA; DEER, BOX, or SPICE BERRY (Gaultheria procumbens) Heath family Flowers - White, small, usually solitary, nodding from a leaf axil. Corolla rounded bell-shape, 5-to...
(Solidago) Thistle family When these flowers transform whole acres into "fields of the cloth-of-gold," the slender wands swaying by every roadside, and purple asters add the final...
(Oxalis violacea) Wood-sorrel family Flowers - Pinkish purple, lavender, or pale magenta; less than 1 in. long; borne on slender stems in umbels or forking clusters, each containin...