HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



Boneset 



E. per fol iatum* — Color, white. Leaves, opposite, clasping, often 

 joined at base so as to make the stem appear to pass through them, 

 serrate, much wrinkled. Summer. 



A well-known plant formerly much used as tea for medici- 

 nal purposes by home practitioners. Flowers in large cor- 

 ymbs. 2 to 4 feet high. Low grounds, widely diffused. 



E. <verbenaefbUum. — Leaves, large, veiny, ovate or lance-shaped, 

 cut or coarsely toothed near the base. The lower often in threes, 

 upper alternate. 



Near the coast in low or swampy grounds. 

 Upland Boneset 



E. sessilifblium. — About 5 feet high. A smooth, soft plant, 

 with soft, downy compound corymbs of flowers. Leaves, opposite, 

 or 3 in a whorl, tapering from a rounded, broad base to a point; 

 sessile, toothed, very veiny, 3 to 6 inches long. Late summer and 

 fall. 



Among the mountains and in thickets from Massachusetts 

 to Illinois and southward. 



White Snakeroot 



E. urticaefblium. — Color, white. Leaves, opposite, long- 

 petioled, with sharp teeth, pointed, broad near the base, thin. 

 Flowers, in compound corymbs. Late summer. 



A handsome plant, 2 to 3 feet high, spreading, branching. 

 Its pure white flowers and long-petioled, thin leaves mass 

 finely in the woods. Rich, moist woods, not far from the 

 coast. 



E. aromattcum is similar to the last, with leaves rather thick, on 

 short petioles, flowers in large corymbs. 



In rich woods near the coast, Massachusetts and Con- 

 necticut to Florida. 



Kuhnia 



Kixhnia eupatoriotdes. — Family, Composite. Color, cream white. 

 Leaves, alternate, entire, or sometimes toothed, lance-shaped to 

 very narrow and long. September. 



A plant with minute down, variable in height and out- 

 line of leaves. Resembling the thorough worts. Flowers in 

 heads of panicled corymbs. Dry, sandy soil, New Jersey 

 southward and westward to eastern Kansas. 



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