How to Know the Wild Flowers

The book that taught America botany by color: find your flower under White, Yellow, Pink or Blue, and read its name, its haunts and its folklore — the first field guide organized the way people actually look.

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Viburnum dentatum. Honeysuckle Family.

A shrub from five to fifteen feet high. Leaves.--Broadly egg-shaped; sharply toothed; strongly veined. Flowers.--White; small; in flat-topped clusters. Calyx, etc.--As in above. Fruit.--Dark blue.

This is a not uncommon shrub in wet places. Its white flower-clusters are noticeable in June along the wooded roadsides. There are many other species of viburnums which are common in certain localities. If an analysis of the flower shows it to belong to this genus, Gray's "Manual" should be consulted for farther identification.

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