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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Speedwell

Veronica serpyllifolia. Figwort Family.

Stem.--Much-branched at the creeping base; almost smooth. Leaves.--Obscurely toothed; almost smooth. Flowers.--Whitish or pale blue with deeper stripes; in loose terminal clusters, otherwise as in above.

The thyme-leaved speedwell is beginning to make itself conspicuous on our lawns, as well as in the fields and along the roadsides.

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