302 BLUE AND PURPLE 



1. CHICORY; SUCCORY: Blue Sailors: Bunk: 



Cichorium Intybus. 



Composite Famity. July Oct. 



Found in fields, waste places, along roadsides. 

 Newfoundland to Minnesota and southward. 

 Naturalized from Europe. 



FLOWER-HEADS Blue, violet-blue, lavender, rays 

 finely toothed on the tips; flowers 

 borne at intervals on branching stems 

 1-3 feet high. 



LEAVES Oblong or lance-shaped, coarsely 

 toothed, partly clasping. 



2. BLAZING STAR: Button Snakeroot: Gay 

 Feather. Liatris scariosa. 



Composite Family. Aug. Sept. 



Found in fields, along roadsides, dry soil. 

 Maine to Ontario, Nebraska and southward. 



FLOWER-HEADS Variable purple, borne in a 

 spike terminating stem 26 feet high. 



LEAVES Narrow lance-shaped. 



