HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



Horse-weed. Butter-weed 



E. canadensis. — Color, white. Leaves, long and narrow, those 

 from the root lobed. Stem, straight, slender, covered with bris- 

 tly hairs. Heads of flowers in panicles, the rays having a cut- 

 off appearance. July to October. 



A coarse, ugly weed, in waste places everywhere. 



White-topped Aster 



Seriocarpus asterotdes. — Family, Composite. Color, white, with 

 a pale yellow center. Disk and ray flowers present. The flowers 

 grow in flat-topped clusters on plants i to 3 feet high. Leaves, 

 serrate or smooth, thin, sessile, upper ones very much reduced, 

 linear, generally hairy. July to September. 



A common and conspicuous plant found on borders of 

 thickets and woods and along roadsides in dry, sandy soil. 

 Maine to Florida and westward. (See illustration, p. 139.) 



S. linifblius. — Color, white. Stem, firm and smooth, marked 

 with fine lines, corymbosely branched, bearing numerous flowers 

 with few rays above a bell-shaped involucre. Leaves, long and 

 narrow, with rough edges, mostly sessile. The pappus of these 

 two species is silky, white. June to September. 



In dry soil, fields and thickets eastward and southward. 



Plantain-leaved Everlasting 



Antennaria plant aginifblia. — Family, Composite. Color, cream 

 or dull white. Leaves, all silky and soft, those at root clustered 

 and spreading, inversely ovate, rounded at apex, 3 -nerved, 

 petioled; those on the flower-stems linear, pointed, sessile, green 

 above, white and densely woolly beneath. The fertile and sterile 

 flowers grow in separate plants, generally near one another, the 

 pistillate being smooth, soft, cottony-downy. Styles, red. Stami- 

 nate flowers have more color, and a dotted appearance. April 

 to June. 



An early, pretty spring flower found in rocky, barren 

 fields and woods everywhere. Low, 3 to 18 inches high, 

 spreading by offsets and runners. (See illustration, p. 141.) 



Pearly Everlasting 



Anaphalis margaritacea Family, Composite. Color, white. 



Stamens and pistils in different flowers. Flowers, all tubular in 

 clusters at the summit of cottony stems, mixed with many leaves. 

 The scales which surround the flowers are obtuse, very white, 

 standing out straight and stiff. Leaves, long, narrow, without 



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