Field Flowers (page 28): "What are you saying? That you want / eternal life? Are your thoughts really / as compelling as all that?"
cow vetch: Clusters of purple-blue flowers that ascend the stem.
tall buttercup: Yellow flowers with wide petals on tall, erect stalks.
wild madder (bedstraw): Clusters of small, four-petaled white flowers on stems. Forms in large patches.
common fleabane: Bunches of flowers on stems, consisting of hundreds of bristle-like rays surrounding a central yellow disk.
Notes: Hundreds of different flowering plants grow wild in Vermont from spring through to fall. Many of the species mentioned elsewhere in the book can be found growing wild. Below, we have reproduced several species reported to grow in a field in the Landon Community, South Hero, Vermont.
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