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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Bearberry

Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi. Heath Family.

A trailing shrub. Leaves.--Thick and evergreen; smooth; somewhat wedge-shaped. Flowers.--Whitish; clustered. Calyx.--Small. Corolla.--Urn-shaped; five-toothed. Stamens.--Ten. Pistil.--One. Fruit.--Red; berry-like. This plant blossoms in May, and is found on rocky hillsides. Its name refers to the relish with which bears are supposed to devour its fruit.

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