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Harebell or Hairbell; Blue Bells of Scotland; Lady’s Thimble

Harebell or Hairbell; Blue Bells of Scotland; Lady’s Thimble

Campanula rotundifolia

Flowers–Bright blue or violet-blue, bell-shaped, 1/2 in. long, or over, drooping from hair-like stalks. Calyx of 5-pointed, narrow, spreading lobes; 5 slender stamens alternate

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Barberry; Pepperidge-bush

Barberry; Pepperidge-bush

Berberis vulgaris

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 shrub, 5 to 8 ft. tall, armed with sharp

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Skunk or Swamp Cabbage

Skunk or Swamp Cabbage

Symplocarpus foetidus

Flowers–Minute, perfect, foetid; many scattered over a thick, rounded, fleshy spadix, and hidden within a swollen, shell-shaped, purplish-brown to greenish-yellow, usually mottled, spathe, close to the ground, that appears

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Common or Plumed Thistle

Common or Plumed Thistle

Cirsium

Is land fulfilling the primal curse because it brings forth thistles? So thinks the farmer, no doubt, but not the goldfinches which daintily feed among the fluffy seeds, nor

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Black Cohosh; Black Snakeroot; Tall Bugbane

Black Cohosh; Black Snakeroot; Tall Bugbane

Cimicifuga racemosa

Flowers–Foetid, feathery, white, in an elongated wand-like raceme, 6 in. to 2 ft. long, at the end of a stem 3 to

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Common Dandelion; Blowball; Lion’s-tooth; Peasant’s Clock

Common Dandelion; Blowball; Lion’s-tooth; Peasant’s Clock

Taraxacum officinale (T. Dens-leonis)

Flower-head–Solitary, golden yellow, 1 to 2 in. across, containing 150 to 200 perfect ray florets on a flat receptacle at the top of a hollow,

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