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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Wild Mint

Mentha Canadensis. Mint Family.

Leaves.--Opposite; aromatic; oval to lance-shaped; toothed; tapering to both ends. Flowers.--Small; purplish or whitish; in globular clusters in the axils of the leaves. Calyx.--Five-toothed. Corolla.--Four-cleft; the upper lobe broadest and sometimes notched. Stamens.--Four. Pistil.--One, with a two-lobed style. Ovary.-Deeply four-lobed.

In wet places, throughout the Northern States, we find our native wild mint.

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