302 BLUE AND PURPLE 



1. CHICORY; SUCCORY: Blue Sailors: Bunk: 



Cichdriuni Intybus. 

 Composite Family. 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 scaribsa. 



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 2—6 feet high. 



Leaves — Narrow lance-shaped. 



