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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Celandine Poppy

Stylophorum diphyllum. Poppy Family.

Stem.--Low; two-leaved. Stem-leaves.--Opposite; deeply incised. Root-leaves.--Incised or divided.--Flowers.--Deep-yellow; large; one or more at the summit of the stem. Calyx.--Of two hairy sepals. Corolla.--Of four petals. Stamens.--Many. Pistil.--One; with a two to four-lobed stigma. In April or May, somewhat south and westward, the woods are brightened, and occasionally the hill-sides are painted yellow, by this handsome flower. In both flower and foliage the plant suggests the celandine.

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