. Familiar flowers of field and garden;. Botany. 130 FAMILIAR FLOWERS OF FIELD AND GARDEN. Field Mouse-ear Chiokweed. veined. Gray graphically explains all the minor diflEerences in a way which may be easily understood by one to whom botany is only slightly familiar. Tlie catchfly blooms in early summer. Field Mouse-ear The field mouse-ear Chickweed. chickweed is one 01 the commonest weeds which grows by our roadsides in all parts of the country. Prof. Meehan says he found it in Bergen Park, Colorado, at a height of seven thousand feet above sea level. So common is the little gray-white flower
. Familiar flowers of field and garden;. Botany. 130 FAMILIAR FLOWERS OF FIELD AND GARDEN. Field Mouse-ear Chiokweed. veined. Gray graphically explains all the minor diflEerences in a way which may be easily understood by one to whom botany is only slightly familiar. Tlie catchfly blooms in early summer. Field Mouse-ear The field mouse-ear Chickweed. chickweed is one 01 the commonest weeds which grows by our roadsides in all parts of the country. Prof. Meehan says he found it in Bergen Park, Colorado, at a height of seven thousand feet above sea level. So common is the little gray-white flower that my sketch will be all that is needed for its identifica- tion. It blooms from April to early August. It has an Alpine origin and does not stand the hot weather well, but with the return of autumn it resumes "a green moss-like growth which it retains through the winter, ready for the early bloom of ; Thus Prof. Meehan describes its char- acter. The common name has no significance now, as it originated long ago by a fancied resemblance to a certain species of forget-me-not which used to be. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938. New York, D. Appleton and Co
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