WILD FLOWERS yellow and orange 



purple. The flower heads have many tiny, deep yellow, 

 star-shaped florets, that are closely tufted with a flaring 

 fringe of from eight to twelve short, recurved deep yellow 

 ray flowers, loosely set around and just below them. The 

 ray flowers are finely grooved, and their tips are slightly 

 notched. They are all set in a deep, smooth yellow-green 

 cup, and several heads, perhaps a dozen, are comfortably 

 gathered in a somewhat flat-topped terminal cluster. 

 The roots are used in medicine. Senico is derived from 

 the Latin, Senex, an old man, and refers to the silky 

 white hairs that succeed the flower. This Ragwort 

 is found from Canada to Florida, and Texas. 



DWARF DANDELION 



Krigia virginica. Chicory Family. 

 A small annual, bearing tiny, deep yellow or light 

 orange-coloured flowers on long, slender, naked stems, 

 that rise from one to fifteen inches in height. The 

 flowers resemble in miniature, those of the Dandelion. 

 They close at night, and when the seed is ripe, they again 

 resemble, on a small scale, the "blow-head" of the latter. 

 Several stems rise from the pretty little circular tuft of 

 long, narrow leaves, and have a remote likeness to those 

 of the Dandelion. They are found from April to August, 

 in dry, sandy soil, from Texas and Florida to Canada. 



DANDELION. BLOWBALL. LION'S-TOOTH 

 CANKERWORT. IRISH DAISY 



Taraxacum officinale. Chicory Family. 



The Dandelion, like the Daisy, scarcely needs to be 

 described. It is known from one end of our great 



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