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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Dangleberry

Gaylussacia frondosa. Heath Family.

A loosely branched shrub; from three to six feet high. Leaves.--Oblong; blunt; pale beneath. Flowers.--Much as in above, but borne in loose, slender clusters. Fruit.--A large blue berry with a whitish bloom; sweet and edible. The dangleberry is found along the coast of New England and in the mountains farther south. It flowers in May or June.

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