COMPOSITE FAMILY. Composite. 



The commonest of all common weeds of 

 the field and wayside, often called Farm- 

 er's Curse, yet a prime favorite with chil- 

 dren and artists! The flower's form is a 

 summum bonum of simplicity and decora- 

 tive beauty. The orange-yellow disc, de- 

 pressed in the centre, is formed of perfect 

 flowers ; the white rays are pistillate. The dark green 

 leaves are ornamentally lobed. 15-25 inches high. The 

 name, from the Greek, means golden flower. 



A tall, branching species commonly cul- 

 tivated, with small daisylike flowers in 

 generous clusters ; the stem smooth, the 

 ornamental leaves broad and deeply lobed. 

 Flowers small, with large yellow discs of 

 perfect florets. 1-2 feet high. Natural- 

 ized from Europe, and mostly an escape 

 Mass. to N. J. , and west to Wis. 

 T A common weed naturalized from Eu- 



Tanacetum rope, generally an escape from gardens 

 vulgare belonging to old dwellings. The flatly 



Orange=yeiiow clustered dull orange-yellow flower-heads 



" y ~ . resemble those of the daisy minus the 



September . J 



white rays ; inner florets perfect and mar- 

 ginal ones pistillate. The compound, deep green leaves, 

 ornamentally toothed and cut, are strongly aromatic. 

 18-30 inches high. Me., south to N. Car. , west to S. Dak. 

 A seaside weed with inconspicuous, tiny, 

 green-yellow flowers in long slender clus- 

 ters, the little flower-heads mostly nod- 

 ding ; the marginal florets pistillate, the 

 central ones perfect. The bitter-tasting, 

 long, linear, deeply cut leaves with thread- 

 2-5 feet high. Me., south, west to Neb. 

 A familiar, uninteresting weed natural- 

 ized from Europe, found in all waste places 

 or near old houses. The smooth green 

 leaves deeply cut, and with lobes coarsely 

 toothed at the tips. The inconspicuous green-yellow 

 flowers erect, not nodding, in a simple, leafy spike. 1-3 

 feet high. Me., south to N. J. and Pa., west to Mich. 

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Oxeye Daisy 



Chrysanthe- 

 mum Leucan- 

 themum 

 White 

 June- 

 September 



Feverfew 



Chrysanthe 

 mum Par- 

 thenium 

 White 

 June- 

 September 



from gardens. 



Tall 



Wormwood 



Artemisia 

 caudata 

 Green=yelIow 

 July-August 



like divisions. 



Mugwort 



Artemisia 

 vulgaris 



