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 Vervain

Verbena urticaefolia. Verbena Family.

Three to five feet high. Leaves.--Oval; coarsely toothed. Flowers.--Small; white; in slender spikes; otherwise resembling Purple Vervain. It almost excites one's incredulity to be told that this uninteresting-looking plant, which grows rankly along the highways, is an importation from the tropics, yet for this statement the botany is responsible.

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