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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Blue Linaria. Blue Toadflax

Linaria Canadensis. Figwort Family.

Stems.--Slender; six to thirty inches high. Leaves.--Linear. Flowers.--Pale blue or purple; small; in a long terminal raceme. Calyx.--Five--parted. Corolla.--Two--lipped, with a slender spur; closed in the throat. Stamens.--Four. Pistil.--One.

The slender spikes of the blue linaria flank the sandy roadsides nearly all summer, and even in November we find a few delicate blossoms still left upon the elongated stems. These flowers have a certain spirituality which is lacking in their handsome, self-assertive relation, butter-and-eggs.

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