YELLOW AND ORANGE WILD FLOWERS 



They close at noon in the hot sun. These flowers are 

 usually in bloom before the Dandelions. The leaves 

 do not appear until after the flowers have matured. 

 At first they are rounded and heart-shaped, but fin- 

 ally become larger and more angled. Their surface 

 is soft and cottony, and is strongly marked with ribs 

 and veinings. They are thin-textured, and their 

 margins are more or less toothed. They are silvery 

 on the under side, and are set on long, grooved stems 

 that rise from the rootstock. Coltsfoot may be found 

 from April to June, from Nova Scotia and New Bruns- 

 wick to Massachusetts, New York and Minnesota, 

 where it has become naturalized from Europe. It 

 prefers moist banks along roadways and streams. 



GOLDEN RAGWORT. LIFE-ROOT. SWAMP 

 SQUAW-WEED. FALSE VALERIAN 



Sanecio aureus. Thistle Family. 

 The attractive, rich, golden-yellow flowers of this 

 Daisy-like perennial appear in May and June in 

 moist meadows and thickets, and in swamps. It is 

 strikingly clean cut and beautiful. The slender, 

 usually smooth, upright stalk is hollow and sparingly 

 leafy. It is angular and twisting in growth, and rises 

 from one to two and a half feet in height, solitary or 

 tufted, from a strong-scented root. The lower leaves 

 are long stemmed, and are long, rounding, heart- 

 shaped, with scallop-toothed edges. Those on the 

 stalk are partly clasping, and are lance-shaped and 

 deeply cut and notched. The foliage is smooth and 

 thin, and together with the stalk is often stained with 



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