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LONGBRANCHED FROSTWEED FROSTFLOWER FROSTWORT CANADIAN

LOBELIA

(Lobelia inflata) Bellflower family Flowers - Pale blue or violet, small, borne at short intervals in spike-like leafy racemes. Calyx 5-parted, its awl-shaped lobes 1/4 in. long, or as long as the tub...

LIZARD'S TAIL [LIZARD'STAIL, WATERDRAGON]

(Saurus cernuus) Lizard's-tail family 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. Stamens 6...

LIVERLEAF NOBLE LIVERWORT SQUIRREL CUP

(Hepalica Hepatica; H. triloba of Gray) Crowfoot family Flowers - Blue, lavender, purple, pinkish, or white; occasionally, not always, fragrant; 6 to 12 petal-like, colored sepals (not petals, as they...

LESSER RATTLESNAKE PLANTAIN [DWARF RATTLESNAKEPLANTAIN]

(Peramium repens; Goodyera repens of Gray) Orchid family 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 roo...

LARGER BLUE FLAG BLUE IRIS FLEURDELIS FLOWERDELUCE

(Iris versicolor) Iris family Flowers - Several, 2 to 3 in. long, violet-blue variegated with yellow, green, or white, and purple veined. Six divisions of the perianth: 3 outer ones spreading, recurve...

LARGE YELLOW LADY'S SLIPPER WHIPPOORWILL'S SHOE YELLOW MOCCASIN

LARGE PURPLE GERARDIA

(Gerardia purpurea) Figwort family Flowers - Bright purplish pink, deep magenta, or pale to whitish, about 1 in. long and broad, growing along the rigid, spreading branches. Calyx 5-toothed; corolla f...

LARGE CORALROOT

(Corallorhiza multiflora) Orchid family Flowers - Dull brownish purple, about 1/2 in. high; 10 to 30 borne in a raceme 2 to 8 in. long. Petals about the length of sepals, and somewhat united at the ba...

LANCELEAVED TICKSEED GOLDEN COREOPSIS

(Coreopsis lanceolata) Thistle family Flowers-heads - Showy, bright golden yellow, the 6 to io wedge-shaped, coarsely toothed ray florets around yellowish disk florets soon turning brown; each head on...

LABRADOR TEA

(Ledum Groenlandicum; L. latifolium of Gray) Heath family Flowers - White, 5-parted, 1/2 in. across or less, numerous, borne in terminal, umbellate clusters rising from scaly, sticky bud-bracts. Stem:...

JUNEBERRY SERVICEBERRY MAYCHERRY

(Amelanchier Canadensis) Apple family Flowers - Pure white, over 1 in. across, on long, slender pedicels, in spreading or drooping racemes, with silky, reddish bracts, early falling, among them. Calyx...