This section is from the book "Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers", by Caroline A. Creevey. Also available from Amazon: Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers.
Color, bright blue, occasionally white. Flowers, few, in a loose raceme. Stem, simple, erect, from a cluster of tuberous roots. 1 to 3 feet high. April and May.
West Pennsylvania, southward.
 
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