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 Snakeroot

Eupatorium ageratoides. Composite Family.

About three feet high. Stem-Smooth and branching. Leaves-Opposite; long-stalked; broadly ovate; coarsely and sharply toothed. Flower heads.--White; clustered; composed of tubular blossoms. This species is less common but more beautiful and effective than the boneset. It is found blossoming in the rich northern woods of late summer.

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