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Agnes Dunbar Chamberlin. North American Wild Flowers
North American Wild Flowers
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LIVER-LEAF (SHARP LOBED HEPATICA.) Hepatica acutiloba
“Lodged in sunny clefts, Where the cold breeze comes not, blooms alone. The little Wind-flower, whose just opened eye. Is blue, as the spring heaven it gazes at.”
BELLWORT (WOOD DAFFODIL.) Uvularia perfoliata
“Fair Daffodils, we weep to see. Thee haste away so soon, As yet the early rising sun. Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay!— Until the hasting day. Has run, But to the evening song; When having prayed together we. Will go with you along.”
WOOD ANEMONE. Anemone nemorosa
“Within the wood, Whose young and half transparent leaves, Scarce cast a shade; gay circles of anemones, Danced on their stalks.”
SPRING BEAUTY. Claytonia Virginica
Where the fire had smoked and smouldered. Saw the earliest flower of Spring time, Saw the beauty of the Spring time, Saw the Miskodeed[1] in blossom
ADDERS-TONGUE (DOG-TOOTHED VIOLET.) Erythronium Americanum
“And spotted Adders-tongue with drooping bell, Greeting the new-born spring.”
WHITE TRILLIUM (DEATH FLOWER.) Trillium Grandiflorum
“And spotless lilies bend the head. Low to the passing gale.”
ROCK COLUMBINE. Aquilegia Canadensis
“The graceful Columbine all blushing red, Bends to the earth her crown. Of honey-laden bells.”
SQUIRREL CORN. Dicentra Canadensis
PURPLE TRILLIUM (DEATH-FLOWER.—BIRTH-ROOT.) Trillium erectum
“Bring flowers, bring flowers o’er the bier to shed. A crown for the brow of the early dead. Though they smile in vain for what once was ours, They are love’s last gift, bring flowers, bring flowers.”
WOOD GERANIUM (CRANES-BILL.) Geranium maculatum
CHICKWEED WINTERGREEN. Trientalis Americana
SWEET WINTERGREEN. Pyrola elliptica
ONE FLOWERED PYROLA. Moneses uniflora
FLOWERING RASPBERRY. Rubus Odoratus
SPEEDWELL (AMERICAN BROOKLIME.) Veronica Americana
YELLOW LADY’S SLIPPERS. Cypripedium parviflorum and Cypripedium pubescens
LARGE BLUE FLAG. Iris Versicolor. Fleur-de-luce
Lilies of all kinds, The fleur-de-luce being one
SMALL CRANBERRY. Vaccinium Oxycoccus
There’s not a flower but shews some touch. In freckle, freck or stain, Of His unrivalled pencil
WILD ORANGE LILY. Lilium Philadelphicum
CANADIAN HAREBELL. Campanula Rotundifolia
“With drooping bells, of purest blue. Thou didst attract my childish view, Almost resembling. The azure butterflies that flew, Where ’mid the heath thy blossoms grew, So lightly trembling.”
SHOWY LADY’S SLIPPER (MOCCASIN FLOWER.) Cypripedium spectabile
But ye have lovely leaves, where we. May see how soon things have. Their end, tho’ n’er so brave; And after they have bloomed awhile, Like us, they sink. Into the grave
EARLY WILD ROSE. Rosa Blanda
“Nor did I wonder at the lilies white, Nor praise the deep vermillion of the rose.”
“The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem, For that sweet odour which in it doth live.”
PENTSTEMON BEARD-TONGUE. Pentstemon pubescens
SWEET SCENTED WATER LILY. Nymphæa Odorata
“Rocked gently there the beautiful Nymphæa. Pillows her bright head.”
YELLOW POND LILY (SPATTER DOCK.) Nuphar advena
And there the bright Nymphæa loves to lave, And spreads her golden orbs along the dimpling wave
PITCHER PLANT (SOLDIER’S DRINKING CUP.) Sarracenia purpurea
PAINTED CUP, SCARLET CUP. Castilleia coccinea
Scarlet tufts. Are glowing in the green like flakes of fire; The wanderers of the prairie know them well, And call that brilliant flower the Painted Cup
SHOWY ORCHIS. Orchis spectabilis
“Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”
INDIAN TURNIP (Arum family.) Arum triphyllum
“Or peers the Arum from its spotted veil.”
CONE FLOWER. Rudbeckia fulgida
