peter's-wort

Updated: May 1, 2025

I recall, too, in a swampy spot, a fine fresh tuft of the golden club, with its gorgeous yellow spadix, a plant that I had never seen in bloom before, although I had once admired a Cape Cod "hollow" full of the rank tropical leaves. St. Peter's-wort, a low shrub, thrives everywhere in the pine barrens, and, without being especially attractive, its rather sparse yellow flowers not unlike the St.

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