COMPOSITE 



THE PLANT: erect, six inches to three feet high, branched 

 and often tufted, at the least at the base; the stem smooth 

 or with a few scattered hairs. 



THE LEAVES: alternate; obovate, oblong, or spatulate; 

 one inch to three inches long; the upper small, narrowed 

 into a long, slender stem, or stemless, nearly entire; the 

 lower pinnatifid, in fact all are sometimes doubly pinnatifid. 



THE FLOWER HEADS: few or several, on bare stems; one 

 inch to two inches broad; the involucre spreading, the 

 bracts oblong-lanceolate, obtuse. Rays twenty to thirty, 

 slightly two- to three-toothed. 



THE FRUIT: achenes; pappus lacking. 



Probably there is no better known plant in the world 

 than this. It is interesting to note that the variety which 

 is the common form in the United States is the rare form 

 in England and on the Continent, and vice versa, the 

 common form in the more eastern countries, the true 

 Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum, is the rarer one here. 



COMPOSITE COMPOSITE FAMILY 



Tanacetum vulgare, L. var. crispum, DC. 



Yellow Tansy, Parsley Fern, 



Bitter Buttons, English Cost, 

 July-October Ginger Plant, Hindheal. 



Tanacetum: name of uncertain origin. 

 Vulgare: Latin for common. 

 Crispum: Latin for crisp. 



THE PREFERRED HABITAT: roadsides. 



THE PLANT: erect, one and one half feet to three feet high; 

 the stem usually simple up to the flowering branches, 

 stout, hairless or with few short, soft hairs. 



THE LEAVES: alternate; pinnately divided into linear-ob- 

 long, pinnatifid or incised parts, the lobes acute, usually 



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