COMPOSITE 



THE FLOWER HEADS: few or solitary, two inches broad, 

 borne on short hairy peduncles; involucre hemispheric; 

 its bracts lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, the outer ones 

 spreading; rays eight to fifteen. 



THE FRUIT: achenes, the pappus consists of deciduous 

 chaffy scales. 



This Wild Sunflower is a copy, on a much slenderer and 

 smaller scale, of the cultivated Sunflower. The flat centre 

 or disk is brown although more yellow-brown than purple- 

 brown, and the oblong, petal-like rays are yellow. On 

 account of its slightness, this is the more graceful plant. 



COMPOSITE COMPOSITE FAMILY 



Bidens cernua, L. 



Yellow Smaller Bur-marigold, 



Nodding Bur-marigold, 



July-October Double-tooth, 



Pitch-forks, 

 Stick-tight, 

 Water Agrimony. 



Bidens: Latin, meaning two-toothed. 

 Cernua: Latin for stooping. 



THE PREFERRED HABITAT: damp borders of fresh -water 

 ponds. 



THE PLANT: erect, bushy, one foot to three feet high, 

 branched; the stem with stiff hairs or hairless. 



THE LEAVES: generally opposite or the uppermost alter- 

 nate; lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate; three inches to six 

 inches long; hairless on both surfaces; tapering to a point 

 at the apex; stemless and partly united at the base; 

 usually shortly and sharply and unequally saw-toothed. 



THE FLOWER HEADS: numerous, nodding on short stems, 



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