HELENIUM 



fertile. Receptacle globose, throwing the disk-florets 

 into a sphere. Involucre small, reflexed; scales, linear; 

 akenes, top-shaped; pappus of five to eight chaffy 

 scales, bristle-pointed. 



With the Sunflowers but not of them, marked 

 by a globe of yellow disk-florets and toothed 

 yellow rays, stand the Heleniums, daughters of 

 Helen, erect, stately, and beautiful, worthy of 

 their classical name. One finds them along 

 river banks, often just out of the water, almost 

 ready to wade in. A single species of a single 

 genus, they have been warmly welcomed into 

 the garden, where they may now be found, vary- 

 ing in color from pale yellow to orange-brown, 

 yet never losing their stately poise or the rare 

 beauty of the flower. 



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