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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[White or occasionally White Flowers not described in White Section. Liverwort. Hepatica triloba. April and May.

Trailing Arbutus. Epigaea repens. April and May White Adder's Tongue. Erythronium albidum. April and May. Bluets. Houstonia caerulea. May and June.

Beard-Tongue. Pentstemon pubescens and Penistemon digitalis. June. Wild Morning Glory. Convolvulus Americanus. Summer.

Moth Mullein. Verbascum Blattaria. Later Summer.

Bouncing Bet. Saponaria officinalis. Later Summer.

NOTE.--Occasional white varieties of other flowers may be found. In this section also are placed flowers so pale as to give a white effect, also greenish flowers, like the Green and Ragged Fringed Orchis.

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