WILD FLOWERS WHITE AND GREENISH 



for healing bruises. This Everlasting is common from 

 July to September, in dry fields, hillsides, and recent 

 clearings, from Alaska to Newfoundland, North Caro- 

 lina, Kansas, and California, also in northern Asia. 

 It was naturalized in this country from Europe. 



PLAINTAIN=LEAF, SPRING, EARLY, OR MOUSE- 

 EAR EVERLASTING. WHITE PLANTAIN. 

 PUSSY-TOES. LADIES* TOBACCO 



Antennaria plantaginifolia. Thistle Family. 



Broad, white patches of this very common Everlast- 

 ing carpet dry fields and hillside pastures almost every- 

 where during the early spring. It seems to come out of 

 the ground with the frost and is the earliest of its kind 

 to appear. It spreads its leafy tufts by runners, and 

 the leafy, woolly stalk sprawls along the ground. The 

 flowering stems grow from six to eighteen inches in 

 height. The basal leaves are paddle-shaped, or 

 broadly oval, and sometimes smooth. They have short 

 stems and are distinctly three-ribbed. They are dark 

 green above and silvery beneath. The upper leaves are 

 oblong or lance-shaped, and stemless and usually small 

 and distant. The numerous tubular flowers are set in 

 their little pale green cups and are crowded into small 

 terminal heads. They are of two kinds, pistillate and 

 staminate, and occur on separate plants, often in 

 distinct patches. The former appear like miniature 

 inverted, silvery white tassels of silk, and the 

 latter, on smaller plants, are more disc -like and 

 creamy white with brownish, orange-tipped stamens. 

 They are found from April to June in dry soil in 



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