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Smooth Mountain Willow Herb

Description. This is thicker set with leaves than the former; a more robust plant. It generally grows quite upright. The stalk is round, reddish, and four feet high. This is thick set with leaves, which are of a pale greyish green, soft to the touch, oblong, broad, indented; and they stand irregularly, and adhere to the stalk at their base. The flowers are large, and of a pale red; they grow singly at the tops of the stalks. The seeds grow in a pod with a silvery down amongst it.

Place. It is common upon our northern and western pasture grounds, and in shady hedges also.

Time. It flowers in June.