Wild Flowers Worth Knowing

This gorgeous flower is thought by scientists to be all that it is for the bees’ benefit, which, of course, is its own also. Abundant moisture, from which to manufacture nectar-...

Let us watch. Bees, flies, moths, and butterflies, especially the latter, hover near. Alighting, the butterfly visitor unrolls his long tongue and inserts it where the five pink...

When these bright clover-like heads and the inconspicuous greenish ones grow together, the difference between them is so striking it is no wonder Linnaeus thought they were born...

No; the bee’s happiness rests on her knowledge that only the butterflies’ long tongues can honestly share with her the brimming wells of nectar in each tiny floret. Children who...

Fuzzy, bright white foam-flowers are most conspicuous in the forest when seen against their unevenly colored leaves that carpet the ground. A relative, the true Miterwort or Bis...

_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,...

_Flowers_--Yellow, small, odor disagreeable, 6-parted, borne in drooping, many-flowered racemes from the leaf axils along arching twigs. _Stem_: A much-branched, smooth, gray sh...

Of the three kinds of blossoms, one raises its stigma on a long style reaching to the top of the flower; a second form reaches its stigma only half-way up, and the third keeps i...

This last orchid of the season, and perhaps the commonest of its interesting tribe in the eastern United States, at least, bears flowers that, however insignificant in size, are...

It is the densely bearded, yellow, fifth stamen (_pente_ = five, _stemon_ = a stamen) which gives this flower its scientific name and its chief interest to the structural botani...

Millions of these dainty wee flowers, scattered through the grass of moist meadows and by the wayside, reflect the blue and the serenity of heaven in their pure, upturned faces....

All the kalmias resort to a most ingenious device for compelling insect visitors to carry their pollen from blossom to blossom. A newly-opened flower has its stigma erected wher...

_Flowers_--Very small, purplish blue, in numerous slender, erect, compact spikes. Calyx 5-toothed; corolla tubular, unequally 5-lobed; 2 pairs of stamens; 1 pistil. _Stem:_ 3 to...

_Flowers_--Greenish white, small, 5-parted, mostly imperfect, in a drooping compound raceme of rounded clusters. _Stem:_ 3 to 6 ft. high, branches spreading. _Roots:_ Large, thi...

A still more popular edition of what has proved to the author to be a surprisingly popular book, has been prepared by the able hand of Mr. Asa Don Dickinson, and is now offered...

In dry, shady places the Large, or Broad-leaved Aster (_A. macrophyllus_), so called from its three or four conspicuous, heart-shaped leaves on long petioles, in a clump next th...

Now, what is the secret of the large, white daisy’s triumphal conquest of our territory? A naturalized immigrant from Europe and Asia, how could it so quickly take possession? I...

Aaron’s rod _Achillea Millefolium_ _Actaea alba_ Adder’s tongue _Agrostemma Githago_ Agueweed _Alismaceae_ Alleluia _Alsine media_ _Althaea officinalis_ Alum-root _Amaryllidacea...