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.

Notable Plant Families

4 pages in this part of How to Know the Wild Flowers.

Notable Plant Families

ALTHOUGH the great majority of plant families can only be distinguished by a combination of characteristics which are too obscure to obtain…

Notable Plant Families: Pulse

Pulse Family.--The Pulse family includes many of our common wood and field flowers. The majority of its members are easily distinguished by…

Notable Plant Families: Mint

Mint Family.--A member of the Mint family usually exhales an aromatic fragrance which aids us to place it correctly. If to this…

Notable Plant Families: Mustard

Mustard Family.--The Mustard family is one which is abundantly represented in waste places everywhere by the little shepherd's purse or…

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