Weeds and Wild Flowers
Weeds and Wild Flowers
Queen Anne’s Lace in frilly white,
Dandelions gold,
Stalwart, seedy plantain spears: These are weeds I’m told.
Though many folks may call them weeds And weeds they well may be,
I stand and stand to look at them.
They’re beautiful to me!
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Leland B. Jacobs
The lion’s tooth
Dandelions are good to eat! For years, people in different parts of the world have eaten the young, spring leaves of dandelions. Some people boil them and eat them with salt and pepper. Some people…
A tall plant with tasty seeds
Sunflowers are big plants with thick, hairy stems and big, heart-shaped leaves. Sunflower blossoms are often as big as dinner plates, and sunflowers sometimes grow twice as tall as a tall man. …
Jack-in-the-pulpit
> Jack-in-the-pulpit It’s easy to see how this little plant got its name. It looks like a little man in a pulpit, ready to give a sermon. It’s called Jack-in-the-pulpit because “Jack” is another…
Arrowhead
> Indians liked to eat arrowhead roots. They pulled the plants out of > the mud with their toes. If you were an Indian long ago, you might have gone wading to get some of your food. Arrowhead is…
