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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Dog Violet

Viola canina; var. Muhlenbergii. Violet Family.

Three to eight inches high. Stems.--Leafy. Leaves.--Heart-shaped; wavy-toothed. Flowers.--Pale violet.

This is the commonest blue species of the leafy-stemmed violets. It is found in wet, shady places from May till July.

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