WILD FLOWERS OF NEW YORK 2QI 



White Snakeroot 



E^lpatormm urticaefolium Reichard 



Plate 231 



Stems erect, smooth, usually much branched, i to 4 feet high from a 

 perennial root. Leaves opposite, ovate, thin, coarsely and sharply toothed, 

 3 to 6 inches long, i to 3 inches wide, on slender petioles, one-half to 2\ 

 inches long; leaf blades rounded, truncate or cordate at the base, usually 

 long pointed at the apex, showing some resemblance to the leaves of the 

 Nettle (Urtica). Inflorescence a rather loose cymose -paniculate cluster of 

 small heads, each with ten to thirty white, tubular flowers; involucres 

 campanulate, one-sixth of an inch high, the bracts linear and arranged in 

 two nearly equal series. 



In rich woods or in thickets and clearings, New Brunswick to Florida, 

 west to Ontario, Nebraska and Louisiana. The plant is said to be 

 poisonous to cattle. 



Climbing Hempweed or Boneset 



Mikania scandens (Linnaeus) Willdenow 



Plate 232a 



Stems smooth and twining or climbing over surrounding vegetation, 

 5 to 15 feet long, from a perennial root. Leaves opposite, ovate or hastate, 

 deeply cordate at the base with rounded basal lobes, long pointed at the 

 apex, somewhat triangular in shape, 2 to 4 inches long, i to 2 inches wide, 

 borne on slender petioles. Heads in compound clusters, borne at the ends 

 of the branches, each head four-flowered, surrounded by oblong involucres 

 of four narrow bracts. Corollas white or pink. 



In swamps and moist soil in woods and thickets along streams or in 

 low, wet places, Maine to western Ontario, south to Florida and Texas. 

 Flowering from July to September. 



