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Gold-thread; Canker-root

Gold-thread; Canker-root

Coptis trifolia

Flowers–Small, white, solitary, on a slender scape 3 to 6 in. high. Sepals 5 to 7, petal-like, falling early; petals 5 to 6, inconspicuous, like club-shaped columns; stamens numerous; carpels

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Large Yellow Pond, or Water, Lily; Cow Lily; Spatterdock

Large Yellow Pond, or Water, Lily; Cow Lily; Spatterdock

Nymphaea advena (Nuphar advena)

Flowers–Yellow or greenish outside, rarely purple tinged, round, depressed, 1-1/2 to 3-1/2 in. across. Sepals 6, unequal, concave, thick, fleshy; petals stamen-like,

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Violet Wood-sorrel

Violet Wood-sorrel

Oxalis violacea

Flowers–Pinkish purple, lavender, or pale magenta; less than 1 in. long; borne on slender stems in umbels or forking clusters, each containing from 3 to 12 flowers. Calyx of 5 obtuse

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New Jersey Tea; Wild Snowball; Red-root

New Jersey Tea; Wild Snowball; Red-root

Ceanothus americanus

Flowers–Small, white, on white pedicels, crowded in dense, oblong, terminal clusters. Calyx white, hemispheric, 5-lobed; 5 petals, hooded and long-clawed; 5 stamens with long filaments; style short,

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Swamp Rose-mallow; Mallow Rose

Swamp Rose-mallow; Mallow Rose

Hibiscus Moscheutos

Flowers–Very large, clear rose pink, sometimes white, often with crimson centre, 4 to 7 in. across, solitary, or clustered on peduncles at summit of stems. Calyx 5-cleft, subtended

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Witch-hazel

Witch-hazel

Hamamelis virginiana

Flowers–Yellow, fringy, clustered in the axils of branches. Calyx 4-parted; 4 very narrow curving petals about 3/4 in. long; 4 short stamens, also 4 that are scale-like; 2 styles. Stem: A

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