• Preface to the New Edition viii

A Heritage of Wildflowers x

Using This Book xii

Attributions xiii

Map of Area Covered 1

Woodlands 2
Trailing Arbutus or Mayflower 6
Jack-in-the-pulpit 8
Wintergreen, Checkerberry, or Teaberry 10
Swamp Honeysuckle 12
Pink Lady's-slipper or Moccasinflower 14
Trout Lily 16
Skunk Cabbage 18
Indian Pipes 20
Columbine 22
Lambkill or Sheep Laurel 24

Ponds and Bogs 26
White Water Lily 30
Rose Pogonia or Snakemouth 32
Redroot 34
Cranberry 36
Sundew 38
Jewelweed or Touch-me-not 40
Meadow Beauty 42
Rose Coreospsis 44
Pickerelweed 46
Cardinal Flower 48
White-fringed Orchid 50

Sandplains: Heath and Pine Barrens 52
Poverty Grass, Beach Heather 56
Bearberry or Hog Cranberry 58
Frostweed 60
Wild Lupine 62
Ladies-tresses 64
Birdfoot Violet 66
Stiff or Frost Aster 68
Prickly Pear Cactus 70
Wild Indigo 72
Yellow Thistle 74
Butterfly-weed 76
Broom Crowberry 78
Blue Curls 80
Sickle-leaved Golden Aster 82
Wood Lily 84
New England Blazing Star 86

Salt Marsh 88
Sea Lavender 92
Turk's Cap Lily 94
Groundsel Tree or Sea Myrtle 96
Silverweed 98
Saltmarsh Fleabane 100
Cat-tail 102
Seaside Gerardia 104
Rose Mallow 106

Dunes and Beaches 108
Sea Rocket 112
Beach Plum 114
Salt-spray Rose 116
Dusty Miller 118
Beach Pea 120
Seaside Goldenrod 122

Alien Species 124
Yellow Iris 128
Sea Poppy 130
Sheep's Bit 132
Trumpet Creeper 134
Scotch Broom 136
Lance-leaf Coreopsis 138

Living on the Edge: Rare and Threatened Wildflowers 140
Bushy Rockrose 144
Leafy White Orchid or Bog Candles 146
Swamp Pink or Dragon Mouth 148
Golden Club 150
Fringed Polygala 154
New England Thoroughwort 154
Plymouth Gentian 156
Sandplain Gerardia 158
Tinker's Weed or Wild Coffee 160

Afterword: A Legacy of Flowers 162

State-listed Rare Flowers of Cape Cod 165

Index 168