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CREEPING SIBBALDIA 



Sibbaldia procumbens. Saxifrage Family 



Stems: woody, decumbent or creeping. Leaves: three-foliolate, 

 leaflets obovate, cuneate at the base, three to five toothed at the apex. 

 Flowers: numerous, petals oblong, very small, calyx-lobes oblong- 

 ovate, longer and broader than the bractlets. 



This depressed shrubby plant is found as high as ten 

 thousand feet. It has three-foliolate leaves, the segments 

 of which are wedge-shaped and three-toothed at the apex. 

 The greenish-yellow flowers have very small petals and 

 large broad calyx lobes with pointed tips. 



SILVER WEED 



Potentllla Anserina. Rose Family 



Stems: tufted, spreading by slender runners. Leaves: petioled, pin- 

 nate, leaflets seven to twenty-five, oblong, oblanceolate, obtuse, the lower 

 generally smaller, sharply serrate, smooth above, silky-pubescent below. 

 Flowers: petals broadly oval, entire, exceeding the ovate acute calyx- 

 lobes and oval bractlets. Fruit: receptacle villous, achenes glabrous. 



The Silver Weed is a tufted plant, with elongated pinnate 

 leaves composed of from seven to seventeen leaflets, which 

 are sharply toothed, green, and smooth on the top, and very 

 silky and whitish underneath. A characteristic feature of 

 the Silver Weed is the minute pairs of leaflets which grow 

 between the real leaflets, but are merely tiny pointed 

 growths. The yellow flowers, which are typical of the 

 whole genus and have five bracts, five sepals, five petals, and 

 numerous stamens, grow on slender naked stalks that spring 

 from the axils of the leaves. The flowers are very pretty 

 and velvety, and commonly grow in the moist meadows, for 

 there 



" The Silver Weed with yellow flowers, 

 Half hidden by the leaf of gray, 



