HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



White-weed. Ox-eye Daisy. White Daisy. Marguerite 



Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum Family, Composite. Color, 



white rays and yellow disks. Leaves, cut or toothed, those below 

 with long petioles, spatulate; those above oblong, pinnatifid. 

 June to August. 



Fields. Not so common southward. The wonder is 

 that so simple a flower can carry so long a name. This is 

 the common white daisy, dear to city maidens, abhorred by 

 cultivators of the soil. It has come from Europe, and is a 

 weed most persistent, aggressive. Not pleasant smelling, 

 but undoubtedly, when massed in big vases, a pretty thing. 

 The feverfew and marguerite of the gardens are refined types 

 of this weed. The English daisy is pink, "crimson-tipped," 

 as Burns says, and is a near relative of the white-weed. 



Fireweed 



Erechfites hieracifolia Family, Composite. Color, greenish 



white. Leaves, lance-shaped or oblong, toothed, sessile, those 

 above having eared bases. August and September. 



A coarse plant with grooved stem and leaves of various 

 shapes and sizes, growing tall (6 feet or less) and erect. The 

 heads of flowers are flat or elongated in their arrangement, 

 and the seeds give rise to many large, soft, fine hairs. This 

 plant springs up in vast numbers over burned districts, filling 

 the air with its white, filmy, cobwebby pappus when the seed 

 is ripe. This is caught everywhere on fences and trees, 

 blocking window-screens and dusting clothing. There is 

 no beauty in the plant, and it has a rank, disagreeable odor. 



Great Indian Plantain. Wild Collard 



Ca.ea.lia. reniformis. — Family, Composite. Color, white. Flow- 

 ers, all tubular, with no marginal rays, collected in flat clusters. 

 Involucre of about 5 bracts in a single row, making a cylindrical 

 cup. Leaves, the lower large and broad, 1 to 2 feet across, kidney- 

 shaped, with petioles; upper fan-shaped, distinctly toothed, all 

 thin, green on both sides. August. 



A plant 4 to 9 feet tall, with a stout, grooved, or angled 

 stem. Rich, moist woods from New Jersey southward. 



Pale Indian Plantain 



C. atriplicifolia. — Color, white. Stem, stout, smooth, round, 

 3 to 6 feet high. Leaves, palmately veined and cut, sometimes 6 



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