W13 



PEARL EVERLASTING 



Ana'phalis margarita'cea * 



Flower cluster close, terminal, 

 round-topped groups up to 6 in. 

 across, composed of numerous 

 small flower heads 



Flower heads pearly white 

 with light yellow centers com- 

 posed of disk flowers; ray 

 flowers absent, heads of 2 kinds: 

 (1) female (pistillate) or seed- 

 producing; (2) male (stamin- 

 ate), pollen-producing; flower- 

 bearing disk (receptacle) with- 

 out chaffy bracts 



Bracts numerous, in a series 

 (involucre) of overlapping rows 

 surrounding flower head, petal- 

 like, pearly white, papery, per- 

 sisting indefinitely (everlasting) 



Female flowers very small, 

 light yellow, with threadlike 

 corolla tube, found only on 

 female plants 



"Seed" (achene) minute ; ob- 

 long, with tuft of fine bristles 

 (pappus), found only on female 

 plants 



Male flowers very small, light 

 yellow, tubular, encircled by 

 pappus at base, found only on 

 male plants 



Leaves 2 to 6 in. long, about 

 K in. wide, green above, white- 

 woolly beneath, un toothed, al- 

 ternate, stalkless (with clasping, 

 earlike lobes at base in variety 

 occidentalis), broadly to nar- 

 rowly lance-shaped 



Stems erect, 1 to 2 ft. high, 

 usually simple, white-woofiy, 

 very leafy, often several from 

 base 



Rootstocks running under- 

 ground, often numerous, elon- 

 gated 



Including the varieties occidenta'tts and subalpi'na 



