If it had no pencil — Pencil-Flower and Letter-Leaf

Dickinson associated two flowers with their names to form this riddle poem. The swaying of pencil-flower is like her writing, "Worn now and dull sweet" that none can read.

If it had no pencil ¹
Would it try mine－
Worn－now－and dull－sweet,
Writing much to thee.
If it had no word, ⁵
Would it make the Daisy,
Most as big as I was,
When it plucked me?

(F.184/J.921)

[1] it:: a letter-leaf; an epiphytic orchid of the genus Grammatophyllum, so named from the markings on the leaves _{(OED 9)}.
[2] mine:: my pencil, the leaflet of a pencil-flower.
[3] worn, dull:: the pencil-flower swaying in the wind like writing.
[4] thee:: passersby who saw this flower; readers.
[6] make the Daisy:: to draw a picture of daisy, a hint on death and grave (under the daisies).
[7] I:: a pencil flower. big:: pompous.
[8] plucked:: the leaflet dropped as being plucked.

Many-flowered Letter-leaf. . . . so called because its flowers are marked with deep brown stains arranged upon a pale ground so as to resemble grotesque characters. ─ Edwards's Botanical Register (1839)

Pencil Flower. Stem erect, herbaceous, somewhat branched above, often several from the root; leaflets lanceolate, strongly straight-veined, smooth, acute; upper stipules sheathing; spikes few flowered. ─ Flora of Pennsylvania (1851)