WRINKLE-LEAVED GOLDENROD 



WRINKLE-LEAVED GOLDENROD 

 HAIRY GOLDENROD 



Soliddgo rugdsa 



Native, perennial. In fields and 

 along roadsides, common every- 

 where, mid-season type. 



Stem. — Stout, hairy, three to five feet 

 high, simple or branched at the summit. 



Leaves, — Alternate, oval or oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute or acuminate at the 

 apex, narrowed at the base, sharply 

 serrate from middle to apex, either ses- 

 sile or the lowest sometimes tapering 

 into petioles; rugose-veiny beneath. 

 Three to five inches long, about an 

 inch wide. 



Flower-heads. — Borne in terminal 

 branching panicles, rather small. Rays 

 medium size, six to nine; disk- florets 

 four to seven. 



A very rough or hairy Golden- 



•^ ^ •' Leaf of Wrinkle- 



rod, common on wooded roadsides Leaved ooidenrod. 



' oohaago rugosa. 



and margins of fields. One of the ^ '° ' ^"- '°°^ 

 mid-season group; its plume of flowers is not 

 particularly distinctive, but its wrinkled, many- 

 veined leaf Is characteristic. 



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