From A Guide to the Wild Flowers:
"Our very familiarity with these conspicuous and beautiful flowers inclines us to pay little heed to them ; although they find their way into children's hands almost more than any other of our wayside flora. If we had to seek them through some quaking bog with only a vague hope of finding them we should probably prize them in some such way as we do the yellow orchis. But they give us no trouble. They galivant along the roadsides and we may admire them, or pass them by, just as we choose. No doubt the political economist would remind us in this connection that things are only valuable that are limited in supply."
Lounsberry, Alice. A Guide to the Wild Flowers. New York, 1899. 310. Web. Google Book Search. 7 Jul 2009.
These always remind me of tiny snapdragons which we used to make "sing" when we were kids by grasping the blossoms by their sides and squeezing gently, forcing their little 'mouths' to open! Ok, I admit it; I still do it.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, I love the name "toadflax"- reminds of my most favorite book of all time "Wind in the WIllows"; some of us just never grow up, I guess!
~gretchen
Yes! I thought these were snapdragons! :-)
ReplyDeleteGood ole Peterson's bailed me out with a color plate.