COMPOSITE FAMILY. Composite. 



A much less beautiful species, but one 

 possessing an aromatic odor resembling 

 that of slippery elm. The flowers cream 

 white and ovoid, not expanding to the 

 water-lily shape until the seed is ripe. The 

 stem (much branched at the top) together 

 with the linear leaves is velvety-hairy and 

 delicate sage green. 12-25 inches high. Very common 

 in dry open places and stony pastures everywhere. The 

 name, from the Greek, means a tuft of wool. 



A similar fragrant species, but with a 

 leafy, glandular-sticky stem, woolly and 

 nearly white; the leaves are a little 

 broader— linear lance-shaped, with a dense 

 woolliness beneath ; they partly clasp the 

 stem. Flower-scales a yellowish cream 

 white. 2-3 feet high. On dry or moist 

 open hillsides or banks, from Me. to Pa. and Minn. 



An insignificant low annual with white- 

 woolly stem and linear, sharp-pointed 

 leaves, rather broader at the tip. Flowers 

 tiny, ovate, with brownish scales. The 

 many-branched stems are 3-7 inches high. 

 Common on low ground. Me., south to 

 Va., and west to Minn, and 111. 



Sweet 

 Everlasting 



Gnaphalium 

 polycephalum 

 Cream white 

 August- 

 September 



Clammy 

 Everlasting 



Gnaphalium 

 decurrens 

 Cream white 

 July- 

 September 



Low or Marsh 

 Cudweed 

 Gnaphalium 

 uliginosum 

 Brownish 

 white 

 July- 

 September 



E1 One of the tall picturesque weeds char- 



Inula Helenium acteristic of the Composite Family. Leaves 



Deep yellow 

 July- 

 September 



olive yellow-green, white- veined, rough 

 above, fine-hairy beneath, toothed, the 

 lower ones stemmed, the upper ones part- 

 ly clasping the plant-stem, which is woolly and often 

 toned with purple-gray. The snowy but somewhat dis- 

 hevelled flower, set amid flattish leaflets, has many nar- 

 row, curving, deep lemon yellow ray florets, which are 

 pistillate, and a broad disc of central, tubular, perfect 

 florets, at first yellow, and finally tan color. Cross-fer- 

 tilized mostly by bumblebees, moths, and butterflies. 

 Two or three flower-heads are grouped together at the 

 termination of the stalk. 2-6 feet high. Naturalized 

 from Europe ; common northward, and south to Ga. 



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