WHITE AND GREENISH WILD FLOWERS 



irregularly at the top. It is often streaked with a red 

 or purplish stain. The thin-textured, rather smooth, 

 slender-stemmed leaves are broadly lance-shaped, 

 and have long, sharp, tapering points. The margins 

 are coarsely and irregularly nicked with sharp, spread- 

 ing teeth. They are broader and heart-shaped at the 

 stem toward the base of the stalk. The flowers are 

 loosely arranged in a broad, flattened, and repeatedly 

 forked top. The few yellow disc florets finally turn to 

 brown. The thin, narrow, white ray flowers number 

 from six to twelve, and are occasionally tinted. This 

 Aster is one of the earliest to blossom, and ranges from 

 Canada to Manitoba, Georgia, and Tennessee, from 

 August to October. 



WHITE HEATH, OR FROST-WEED ASTER. FROST- 

 WEED. MICHAELMAS DAISY. FAREWELL 

 SUMMER. WHITE ROSEMARY. DOQ=FEN= 

 NEL. MARE'S TAIL. SCRUB-BRUSH 



Aster ericoides. Thistle Family. 



A common, small-flowered, and usually bushy 

 Aster with its nearly smooth stalk rising from one to 

 three feet, and covered with very small, bract-like 

 leaflets. It is so closely studded with the prettiest little 

 flowers that methinks it may well be the Christmas 

 tree of Fairyland, spangled with starlets. The leaves 

 are firm or rigid, and the lower ones are paddle-shaped 

 with toothed margins and narrowed into winged stems. 

 The upper leaves are long, narrow and toothless. The 

 flower heads are very numerous and measure from one- 

 third to one-half an inch across. From fifteen to 



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