WHITE AND GREENISH WILD FLOWERS 



foliage. It ranges from Maine and Ontario to British 

 Columbia, southward to Georgia, Texas, and Arizona. 



WHORLED, OR MOUNTAIN ASTER 



Aster acuminatus. Thistle Family. 



A low-growing woodland Aster with very large, 

 sharply pointed leaves so closely alternated toward the 

 top of the stalk beneath the flowers as to appear as 

 though they were whorled. The flowers often have 

 a scrawly, bedraggled appearance that gives the plant 

 an untidy effect. The somewhat hairy and zigzag 

 stalk grows from one to three feet high. It is generally 

 naked below with the great, drooping leaves which 

 spread from the crowded top in a ragged circle. The 

 thin-textured, coarsely toothed leaves are broadly ob- 

 long, tapering at the apex and narrowing into a wedge- 

 like base. The flower heads, few or several, are an inch 

 or an inch and a half broad. The long, narrow rays, 

 numbering from twelve to eighteen, are white or purple 

 tinted and surround the purple-stained centre of tubular 

 yellow florets. The flowers are set on long, slender stems 

 that spread just above the clustered leaves. This strik- 

 ing Aster is found only in cool, rich, moist woods from 

 Labrador to Ontario and New York, and southward 

 along the Alleghanies to Georgia, from July to October. 



DAISY FLEABANE. SWEET SCABIOUS 



Engeron annuus. Thistle Family. 



The common Daisy Fleabane follows immediately 

 upon the heels of Robin's Plantain in June. It is one 



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