Wildflowers of the Schoolyard
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Morning - Glory Mostly vines with bell shaped blossoms, often showy. The 5 united petals flare out to form a bell-like corolla with very shallow lobes. The dodders are leafless vines with minute flowers. |
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Trumpet - Creeper This Trumpet - Creeper is a climbing vine with swollen, 3 - inch, trumpet like flowers. These flowers are found in Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Michigan, and Connecticut. |
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| Purple - Headed Sneezeweed
This flower is similar to Sneezeweed, but button deep purplish, upper leaves smaller, less toothed. 1-3 foot damp thickets, rich meadows, roadsides. These flowers are found in Michigan, New York, and New England. |
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Lady's - Thumb, Redleg Smartweeds are known by their tight, spikelike clusters of tiny pink( or whitish) flowers and knotted stems with a papery sheath at each joint. Lady' - thumb is erect or sprawling, has narrow leaves, often with a dark triangular blotch. |
Reference Peterson Field Guides Wildflowers, 1968, By Rodger Tory Peterson/ Magaret Mckenny