The Spring Flowers—Red.
Heading this list comes the Columbine, and if you will gather this flower you must be prepared to climb, for it is fond of nooks and crannies difficult to reach. Starting up from three broad leaves the little flower of the Wake Robin thrusts itself upon our attention; it is not shy or retiring like the arbutus or the timid little blushing Spring Beauty.
COLUMBINE.
The Spring Flowers—Blue and Purple.
First of the blues comes the fuzzy-stemmed and fuzzy-budded hepatica, which is known also by the ugly name of "liverwort." Sometimes the flowers fade to a white, sometimes to a pinkish lavender. The one symbol of springtime is the violet. When the violet comes we know that winter has gone for good. The wild geranium or cranebill grows and blossoms sturdily when the anemones and Spring Beauties are getting scarce.
Other blue and purple spring flowers:
Bluets or Quaker Ladies—Meadows and roadsides.
Larkspur—Not found east of Pennsylvania.
Cancer Root—Wet woods.