COMPOSITE FAMILY 



season, but as it virtually has a continental 

 distribution its blooming period varies. 



It possesses one engaging characteristic, its 

 violet heads are mostly solitary at the tips of 

 the many spreading branchlets of the terminal 

 panicle, so that each has its own outlook upon 

 the world. The leaves vary in length, in moist 

 places becoming long and narrow. 



BLAZING STAR 



Lacindria scaridsa. Lidtris scaridsa 



A tall, stout, handsome plant, standing in dry 

 situations by roadsides and in fields, bearing 

 heads of brilliant rose-purple flowers. Peren- 

 nial. Extremely variable. New England to 

 Minnesota, south to Florida and Texas. 



Stem. — Tall, hairy, two to four feet high, simple. 



Leaves. — Alternate, narrow, oblong-lanceolate, upper 

 leaves small. 



Flower-heads. — Discoid-composite, that is, all the 

 florets tubular, bluish purple, thirty to forty florets in 

 a head, and heads borne on a long spike. Involucre 

 of many dry and scarious scales. Pappus of capillary 

 bristles. 



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