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Golden-rods
Solidago
When these flowers transform whole acres into “fields of the cloth-of-gold,” the slender wands swaying by every roadside, and Purple Asters add the final touch of imperial splendor to the autumn landscape, already
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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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Hedge or Great Bindweed; Wild Morning-glory; Rutland Beauty; Bell-bind; Lady’s Nightcap
Convolvulus sepium
Flowers–Light pink, with white stripes or all white, bell-shaped, about 2 in. long, twisted in the bud, solitary, on long peduncles
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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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Spikenard; Indian Root; Spignet
Aralia racemosa
Flowers–Greenish white, small, 5-parted, mostly imperfect, in a drooping compound raceme of rounded clusters. Stem: 3 to 6 ft. high, branches spreading. Roots: Large, thick, fragrant. Leaves: Compounded
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Spreading Dogbane; Fly-trap Dogbane; Honey-bloom; Bitter-root
Apocynum androsaemifolium
Flowers–Delicate pink, veined with a deeper shade, fragrant, bell-shaped, about 1/3 in. across, borne in loose terminal cymes. Calyx 5-parted; corolla of 5 spreading, recurved lobes united
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