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(Leptandra Virginica; Veronica Virginica of Gray) Figwort family Flowers - Small, white or rarely bluish, crowded in dense spike-like racemes 3 to 9 in. long, usually several spikes at top of stem or...
(Silphium perfoliatum) Thistle family Plower-heads - Yellow, nearly flat; 2 to 3 in. across; 20 to 30 narrow, pistillate ray florets, about 1 in. long, overlapping in 2 or 3 series around the perfect...
(Erigeron pulchellus; E. bellifolium of Gray) Thistle family Flower-heads - Composite, daisy-like, 1 to 1/2 in. across; the outer circle of about 50 pale bluish-violet ray florets; the disk florets gr...
(Erigeron annus) Thistle family Flower-heads - Numerous, daisy-like, about 1/2 in. across; from 40 to 70 long, fine, white rays (or purple- or pink-tinged), arranged around yellow disk florets in a ro...
(Dianthus Armeria) Pink family Flowers - Pink, with whitish dots, small, borne in small clusters at end of stem. Calyx tubular, 5-toothed, with several bract-like leaves at base; 5 petals with toothed...
Class and Order. Diadelphia Hexandria. Generic Character. Cal. diphyllus. Cor. ringens. Filamenta 2 membranacea singula Antheris 3. Specific Character and Synonyms. FUMARIA cava, caule simplici, bract...
Class and Order. Diadelphia Pentandria. Generic Character. Cal. diphyllus. Cor. ringens. Filam. 2 membranacea, singula Antheris 3. Specific Character and Synonyms. FUMARIA solida, caule simplici, brac...
Class and Order. Syngenesia Polygamia Frustranea. Generic Character. Recept. paleaceum, planum. Pappus 2-phyllus. Cal. imbricatus, subsquarrosus. Specific Character and Synonyms. HELIANTHUS multifloru...
Class and Order. Pentandria Monogynia. Generic Character. Cor. infundibuliformis, Stigma capitato-globosum, Caps. 3-locularis. Specific Character and Synonyms. IPOMŒA coccinea foliis cordatis ac...
Class and Order. Pentandria Monogynia. Generic Character. Corolla infundibuliformis. Stigma capitato-globosum. Caps. 3-locularis. Specific Character and Synonyms. IPOMŒA Quamoclit foliis pinnati...
Class and Order. Pentandria Pentagynia. Generic Character. Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala 5. Caps. 5-valvis, 10-locularis. Sem. solitaria. Specific Character and Synonyms. LINUM arboreum foliis cuneiformibus,...
Class and Order. Syngenesia Monogamia. Generic Character. Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. 1-petala, irregularis. Caps. infera, 2 sive 3-locularis. Specific Character and Synonyms. LOBELIA surinamensis caule suffru...