COMPOSITE FAMILY COMPOSITAE 
DWARF DANDELION 
Krigia virginica (L.) Willd. 
The Dwarf Dandelion grows in sandy soil from Maine to 
Minnesota and south to Florida and Texas. It is annual and does 
not produce an upright stem. It has a rosette of leaves like a 
Dandelion, and usually several smooth, 
slender peduncles 1-15 inches long, each 
of which bears 1 head of yellow strap- 
shaped flowers. 
The blooming season is April to 
August. The involucre is made up of 
g-18 bracts arranged in 2 series of nearly 
equal length. When the fruits are mature 
these bracts are turned down. The re- 
ceptacle is flat and naked. The akenes 
are somewhat 5-angled and 15-20- 
ribbed. The pappus is in 2 parts, the 
outer composed of 5 thin rounded scales 
and the inner of 10 or more slender 
bristles. 
The Cynthia, Krigia amplexicaulis 
Nutt., is found in moist open places and 
blooms from May to October. It is per- 
ennial and in addition to a rosette of basal 
leaves produces a stem 1-2 feet high, 
which bears 1-3 oblong and nearly entire 
leaves produces a stem 1-2 feet high, 
which bears 1-3 oblong and nearly entire 
leaves with clasping bases, and 1-6 long- 
peduncled heads of orange flowers, about 
1% inches broad. The basal leaves are 1-7 
inches long and are narrowed into bordered 
petioles. The pappus is composed of 10-15 
small oblong scales and about the same 
number of bristles. 
Another Dwarf Dandelion or the 
Goatsbeard, Krigia Dandelion (L.) Nutt., 
is a small perennial having much the appearance of a diminutive 
dandelion. A rosette of oblong-spatulate to linear-lanceolate leaves 
arises from a cluster of slender tuber-bearing roots. The scape is 
6-18 inches high and bears generally a single head about 1 inch 
broad and composed entirely of yellow strap-shaped corollas. 
The akenes are nearly oblong and crowned by a pappus of about 12 
small scales. This is a more southern species, living on moist soil 
from Maryland and Florida, west to Illinois, Kansas and Texas, and 
blooming from April to June. 
386 
. - ‘ 
ee ts ae) ae eee eee 
