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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Waterleaf

Hydrophyllum Virginicum. Waterleaf Family.

One to two feet high. Leaves.--Divided into five to seven oblong, pointed, toothed divisions. Flowers.--White or purplish; in one-sided raceme-like clusters which are usually coiled from the apex when young. Calyx.--Five-parted. Corolla.--Five-cleft; bell-shaped. Stamens.--Five; protruding. Pistil.--One.

This plant is found flowering in summer in the rich woods.

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