276 A GUIDE TO THE WILD FLOWERS 



848. Sweet Coltsfoot. Pctasites palmatus. A curious plant 

 with the white-woolly under surface of the broad-angled 

 leaves in strong- contrast to the perfectly green upper surface. 

 The leaves are never present at flowering time, but develop 

 some weeks later. Flowers white, fragrant, clustered towards 

 the end of a scaly stalk that arises directly from the ground. 

 In wet places, Newfoundland to the mountainous parts of 

 New England and New York and westward. April. Fig. 848. 



849. Common White Daisy. Chrysanthemum Leucanthc- 

 mum. One of the most common European plants in America, 

 and prized for its brilliant flowers. Usually unbranched and 

 smooth, i-i}4 ft. high. Leaves merely deeply toothed or 

 incised, oblong, the basal ones stalked, the stem leaves stalk- 

 less. Flower heads mostly solitary, 1-2 in. wide, the rays 

 white. June-October. Mostly in fields or along roadsides. Fig. 



849. 



850. Yarrow. Achillea Millefolium. A perennial, aromatic, 

 Eurasian herb, 1-2 ft. high. Leaves finely dissected, mostly 

 stalked, more or less oblong in outline, the uppermost smaller, 

 short stalked, or stalkless. Flower heads in a nearly flat- 

 topped cluster that may be 3 in. wide. Heads about %. in. 

 wide, the rays mostly white, rarely pinkish. In fields and 

 waste places, throughout North America. June-October. Fig. 

 850. 



851. DiLLWEED. Anthemis Cotula. An evil-smelling sticky 

 European weed with finely dissected leaves. Flower heads 

 much like No. 849, but not so large, and often more than 

 one or two, as in No. 849. In fields and waste places, nearly 

 throughout North America. June-October. A relative, with 

 yellow flowers and hairy foliage, A. tinctoria, is found 

 throughout North America in similar situations. 



852. Leaves not divided or dissected, sometives slightly 

 lobed, and often toothed. 



This group of the Daisy Family includes mostly the As- 

 ters, and their close relatives. Of the many species found 



