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Booklet entitled "Rocky Mountain Wild Flowers"Entry/Object ID
2000.FIC.02.066Scope and Content
Booklet entitled "Rocky Mountain Wild Flowers" by Patience Stapleton Bound herbarium.
Introduction regarding flowers.
Two poems on the next page I and II by Gilbert McDlurg?
Pressed flowers included:
Cleome - Spider flower is fast growing, self-seeding annual with delicate and airy flowers in showy, exotic looking heads of pink, white or purple.
Tassel Weed - Ambrosia artemisiifolia - annual weed,commonly known as ragweed, with finely divided foliage and spikes of green flowers; common in North America; introduced elsewhere
Indian Pink - Spigelia marilandica, the woodland pinkroot or Indian pink is a herbacious perennial wildflower in the Loganiaceae family native to inland areas of the Southeastern and Midwestern United States
Anemone - Anemone is a genus of flowering plants in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. Plants of the genus are commonly called windflowers. They are native to the temperate and subtropical regions of all regions except Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and the Middle East.
Clematis - Clematis are among the most decorative and spectacular of all the flowering vines. They are a group of mostly woody, deciduous vines.
Rose - A rose is either a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus Rosa, in the family Rosaceae, or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred species and tens of thousands of cultivars.
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Gentiana Frigida - a small perennial flowering plant of the genus Gentiana that is found in the Carpathian Mountains and eastern Alps.
Fise Weed
Thermopsis - Thermopsis villosa, commonly called Carolina lupine, is an upright, clump-forming perennial which is native to the Carolinas and Georgia.
Patience Stapleton, who wrote the introduction, was a well known writer and proponent of the women's suffrage movement. She wrote poems, novels, short stories, and news articles, and was especially known for her descriptions of frontier life, urbanization, industrialization, and women's rights. She was born in 1861 in Maine and died in 1893 in Maine.
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