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Wild Bergamot Flowers—Extremely variable, purplish, lavender, magenta, rose, pink, yellowish pink, or whitish, dotted ; clustered in a solitary, nearly flat terminal head. |
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Snake-head ; Turtle-head ; Balmony; Shellflower; Cod-head Flowers—White tinged with pink, or all white, about 7 in. long, growing in a dense terminal cluster. |
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Large Purple Gerardia Flowers—Bright purplish pink, deep magenta, or pale to whitish, about 1 in. long and broad, growing along the rigid, spreading branches. |
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Twin-flower; Ground Vine Flowers-Delicate pink or white tinged with rose, bellshaped, about 1/2 in. long, fragrant, nodding in pairs on slender, curved pedicels from an erect peduncle, 2-bracted where they join. |
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Joe-Pye Weed ; Trumpet Weed ; Purple Thoroughwort; Gravel or Kidney-root; Tall or Purple Boneset Flower-heads—Pale or dull magenta or lavender pink, slightly fragrant, of tubular florets only, very numerous, in large, terminal, loose, compound clusters, generally elongated. |
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Common Burdock; Cockle-bur; Beggar's Buttons; Clot-bur; Cuckoo Button Flower-heads—Composite of tubular florets only, about % in. broad; magenta varying to purplish or white ; the prominent round involucre of many overlapping leathery bracts, tipped with hooked bristles. |
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Water Arum; Marsh Calla Flowers—Minute, greenish yellow, clustered on a cylinder-like, fleshy spadix about 1 in. long, partly enfolded by a large, white, oval, pointed, erect spathe, the whole resembling a small calla lily open in front. |
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American White Hellebore; Indian Poke; Itch-weed Flowers—Dingy, pale yellowish or whitish green, growing greener with age, 1 in. or less across, very numerous, in stiff-branching, spike-like, dense-flowered panicles. |
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Star of Bethlehem ; Ten O'Clock Flowers—Opening in the sunshine, white within, greenish on the outside, veined, borne on slender pedicels in an erect, loose cluster. Perianth of 6 narrowly oblong divisions, 1/2 in. long or over, or about twice as long as the flattened stamens. |
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Star-grass ; Colic-root Flowers—Small, oblong-tubular, pure white or yellowish, about 1/4. in. long, set obliquely in a long, wand-like, spiked raceme, at the end of a slender scape 2 to 3 ft. tall. |
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Wild Spikenard; False Solomon's Seal; Solomon's Zig-zag Flowers—White or greenish, small, slightly fragrant, in a densely flowered terminal raceme. |
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Hairy, or True, or Twin-flowered Solomon's Seal Flowers—Whitish or yellowish green, tubular, bellshaped, t to 4, but usually 2, drooping on slender peduncles from leaf axils. |
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White and Greenish Flowers—Solitary, pure white, about 1 in. long, on an erect or curved peduncle, from a whorl of 3 leaves at summit of stem. |
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Nodding Ladies' Tresses or Traces Flowers—Small, white or yellowish, without a spur, fragrant, nodding or spreading in 3 rows on a cylindrical, slightly twisted spike 4 or 5 in. long. |
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Lesser Rattlesnake Plantain Flowers—Small, greenish white, the lip pocket-shaped, borne on one side of a bracted spike 5 to 10 in. high, from a fleshy, thick, fibrous root. |
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Lizard's Tail Flowers—Fragrant, very small, white, lacking a perianth, bracted, densely crowded on peduncled, slender spikes 4 to 6 in. long and nodding at the tip. |
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Spring Beauty; Claytonia Flowers—White veined with pink, or all pink, the veinings of deeper shade, on curving, slender pedicels, several borne in a terminal loose raceme, the flowers mostly turned one way (secund). |
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Starry Campion Flowers—White, about 1/2 in. broad or over, loosely clustered in a showy, pyramidal panicle. |
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Common Chickweed Flowers—Small, white, on slender pedicels from leaf axils, also in terminal clusters. |
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Sweet-scented White Water Lily; Pond Lily; Water Nymph; Water Cabbage Flowers—Pure white or pink tinged, rarely deep pink, solitary, 3 to 8 in. across, deliciously fragrant, floating. |
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Laurel or Small Magnolia; Sweet or White Bay ; Swamp Laurel or Sassafras ; Beaver-tree Flowers—White, 2 to 3 in. across, globular, depressed, deliciously fragrant, solitary at ends of branches. |
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Gold-thread ; Canker-root Flowers—Small, white, solitary, on a slender scape 3 to 6 in. high. Sepals 5 to 7, petallike, falling early ; petals 5 or 6, inconspicuous, like club-shaped columns ; stamens numerous ; carpels few, the stigmatic surfaces curved. |
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White Baneberry The Red Baneberry, Cohosh, or Herb-Christopher (A. rubra) —A. spicata, var. rubra of Gray—a more common species north-ward, although with a range, habit, and aspect similar to the pre-ceding, may be known by its more ovoid raceme of feathery white flowers, its less sharply pointed leaves, and, above all, by its rigid clusters of oval red berries on slender pedicels, so conspicuous in the woods of late summer. |
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Black Cohosh; Black Snakeroot; Tall Bugbane Flowers—Fetid, feathery, white, in an elongated wand-like raceme, 6 in. to 2 ft. long, at the end of a stem 3 to 8 ft. high. |
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Wood Anemone; Wind Flower Flowers—Solitary, about t in. broad, white or delicately tinted with blue or pink outside. Calyx of 4 to 9 oval, petallike sepals ; no petals ; stamens and carpels numerous, of Indefinite number. |
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Virgin's Bower; Virginia Clematis; Traveller's Joy; Old Man's Beard Flowers—White and greenish, about 1 in. across or less, in loose clusters from the axils. |
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Tall Meadow-Rue Flowers—Greenish white, the calyx of 4 or 5 sepals, falling early; no petals ; numerous white, thread-like, green-tipped stamens, spreading in feathery tufts, borne in large, loose, compound terminal clusters 7 ft. long or more. |
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Twin-leaf; Rheumatism Root Flowers—White, t in. broad, solitary, on a naked scape about 7 in. high in flower, more than twice as tall in fruit. |
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May Apple; Hog Apple; Mandrake; Wild Lemon Flowers—White, solitary, large, unpleasantly scented, nodding from the fork between a pair of terminal leaves. |
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Bloodroot; Indian Paint; Red Puccoon Flowers—Pure white, rarely pinkish, golden centred, 1 to 1 in. across, solitary, at end of a smooth naked scape 6 to 14 in. tall. |
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