An occasional weed around dwellings and in waste places; naturalized 
from Europe. 
Be Peplus L. Annuals; 20-50 cm, tall, bushy; obovate leaves abruptly 
narrowed to slender petioles 5-10 mm, long. Immigrant from Europe, 
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2e Be Elyptosperma Engelm, A glabrous annual with spreading prostrate 
branched stems 10-20 cm. long; leaves oblong, 4-8 mm, long, 1-2.5 mm, 
wide, blunt at both ends, entire or vith a few minute teeth at the apex, 
subsessile, the stipules fimbriates; glands of the involucre with a narrow 
white margin; ovary 1.5 mm, longs seeds covered with a white bloom, 
bearing a few transverse ridges. 
An indigenous weed of waste places at low elevations; St. Maries; 
Sandpoint, 
3e be serpyllifolia Le A glabrous annual with prostrate branched stems 
10-20 cm. long; leaves oval or obovate, 7-8 mm. long, 3-4 mm, wide, 
sharply toothed at the rounded apex, subsessile, the stipules fimbriate; 
te clands of the involucre with a white crenulate margin; ovary 1.5 m, 
long; seeds covered with a white bloom, pitted or roughened but not with 
distinct ridgese 
Am occasional indigenous weed of waste places at low elevations, its 
foliage reddening in the autumn, Lake Coeur d'Alene, Epling 10008, 
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