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Dame's Rocket [Hesperis matronalis]

Flower      

Common Name: Dame's Rocket
Scientic Name: Hesperis matronalis
Colors: White
Months Appearing: May

Up to 3 feet high. Leaves narrow oval.

Confused with Flox but 4 petals instead of 5. Flowers in Racemes. 3/4 to 1 inch in diameter.

Alien. Mustard family. 

Roadsides, fields, woods. 

May 26. Riverwalk, Big Rapids, Mi