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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Rock Cress

Arabis hirsuta. Mustard Family.

Erect; one to two feet high. Stem-leaves.--Oblong or lance-shaped; sometimes toothed; partly clasping by a somewhat heart-shaped base. Flowers.--Small; greenish white; clustered. Calyx.--Of four early-falling sepals. Corolla.--Of four petals. Stamens.--Six; two shorter than the others. Pistil.--One. Fruit.--A long, narrow, flattened pod.

During May and June in rocky places, especially northward, we find this flower in abundance.

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