Wild Flowers Worth Knowing, by Neltje Blanchan, Part 3
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
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Claytonia Virginica
The Perslane family, Portilagacia, spring beauty. The plant makes a cleansing soap-like lather when its bruised leaves are agitated in water. A stout, buxom, exuberantly healthy lassi among flowers is bouncing bed. With her she was brought from Europe, and ran wild beyond colonial farms to roadsides.
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