Very often these edges turn quite yellow when the plant is just beginning to fade.
The Tormentil root is rather curious. It looks like a thick brown finger, but if you cut it, the inside is a delicate rose red.
1. BIRD'S FOOT TREFOIL. 2. HOP TREFOIL
3. LADY'S FINGERS. 4. MEADOW VETCHLING.
1. BIRDSFOOT TREFOIL
The golden Birdsfoot Trefoil grows nearly everywhere. You can gather its tufts of bright yellow flowers all summer in the fields and woods and waste places.
The flowers grow in heads at the end of a long flower-stalk, and each head may have from four to eight flowers close together in a bunch.
The five petals are golden-yellow streaked with red, and they are strangely shaped. There is one big petal which stands up behind. Then there are two long-shaped petals which lie sideways, and two small ones that are joined together in a curious point.