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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Yellow Loosestrife

Lysimachia stricta. Primrose Family.

Stem.--One to two feet high; leafy. Leaves.--Opposite; lance-shaped Flowers.--Small; yellow; growing in long clusters. Calyx, Corolla, etc., very much as in L.quadrifolia.

The bright clusters of the yellow loosestrife shoot upward from the marshes, and gild the brook's border from June till August.

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