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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Foam-Flower. False Mitre-Wort

Tiarella cordifolia. Saxifrage Family.

Stem.--Five to twelve inches high; leafless, or rarely with one or two leaves. Leaves.--From the rootstock or runners; heart-shaped; sharply lobed. Flowers.--White; in a full raceme. Calyx.--Bell-shaped; five-parted. Corolla.--Of five petals on claws. Stamens.--Ten; long and slender. Pistil.--One, with two styles.

Over the hills and in the rocky woods of April and May the graceful white racemes of the foam-flower arrest our attention. This is a near relative of the Mitella or true mitre-wort. Its generic name is a diminutive from the Greek for turban, and is said to refer to the shape of the pistil

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