Spring Beauty.
Claytonia Virginica. Purslane Family.
Stem.—From a small tuber, often somewhat reclining. Leaves.—Two; opposite, long and narrow. Flowers.—White, with pink veins, or pink with deeper-colored veins, growing in a loose cluster. Calyx.—Of two sepals. Corolla.—Of five petals. Stamens.—Five. Pistil.—One, with style three-cleft at apex.
So bashful when I spied her,
So pretty, so ashamed!
So hidden in her leaflets
Lest anybody find:
So breathless when I passed her,
So helpless when I turned
And bore her struggling, blushing,
Her simple haunts beyond!