HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



Early Golden-rod. Plume Golden-rod 



5. juncea — This species may be seen from June to November. 

 It may easily be known by the fringed petioles of the lowest, 

 sharply toothed leaves. Upper leaves narrow, entire, sessile! 

 Stem, i£ to 4 feet high, commonly about 2 feet. Flowers have 

 small rays, and are arranged in close, heavy, drooping, corymb- 

 like panicles upon the upper sides of the branchlets. 



A common form, in dry fields from far north, Hudson 

 Bay to North Carolina. 



5. serotina — Stem, tall, thick, rough, from 2 to 7 feet high. 

 Leaves, tapering, very acute, thin, sharply toothed, smooth 

 above and beneath. Flowers, in a large, spreading, handsome 

 panicle. July to September. 



In rich or poor soil, thickets, copses, fields, etc. 



Var. gigantea is 5 to 8 feet high. A large, flowing panicle of 

 bright-yellow flowers caps the stout, rough stem. 



Abundant along fences, in fields and waste places. 

 Bog Golden-rod 



S. uliginbsa Stem, unbranched, smooth below the flower- 

 panicle, 2 to 4 feet high. Leaves, lance-shaped or oblong, much 

 pointed, finely toothed, rough on the margins, the lower 4 to 9 

 inches long, with winged petioles. Flowers, small, much crowded 

 in a long, terminal panicle. July to September. 



Bogs, swamps, wet shores of streams from Newfound- 

 land to New Jersey and Pennsylvania, in mountains to 

 North Carolina. 



S. patula. — Stems, smooth, sharply 4-angled, often 7 feet high. 

 Leaves, linear, smooth beneath, very rough above. This un- 

 usual roughness of the upper surfaces of the leaves will identify 

 the species. Leaves pinnately veined, those below very large, 

 3 to 16 inches, finely toothed. Upper ones entire, small, lance- 

 shaped. Flowers, numerous, on separate and spreading branches 

 whi tli have leafy bracts. 



In swamps, Maine to Minnesota south to Georgia and 

 Texas. In mountains 5,000 feet high in North Carolina. 



5. Elliottii. — Stem, smooth, stout, 3 to 6 feet high, simple as 

 far as the flowers begin, then, perhaps, branched. Leaves, not 

 much toothed, oblong or lance-shaped, obtuse at base, without 



