BORAGINACEAE (BORAGE FAMILY) 335 



Time of bloom : June to August. 

 Seed time: July to September. 



Range: New Brunswick to western Ontario and Minnesota, south- 

 ward to the Gulf of Mexico. 

 Habitat: Upland brushy pastures, thickets, borders of woods. 



Sheep are the animals most likely to 

 be grazing where this weed grows, and it 

 is most damaging to their fleeces. Stems 

 slender, two to four feet tall, branching 

 at the top into a widely divergent 

 panicle. The root-leaves are roundish 

 ovate to heart-shaped, with long, slender 

 petioles; these die away before the 

 coming of the fruiting stalk in the 

 second year; stem-leaves oblong-ovate 

 to oval, pointed at base and tip, the 

 lower ones petioled, the upper ones ses- 

 sile, softly hairy on both sides. Racemes 

 long, very slender, swung out almost hori- 

 zontally ; corolla bluish or nearly white, 

 minute, its five lobes spread salver-form, 

 the five stamens included in its tube. 

 Burs globose, the four nutlets covered FIG. 232. Virginia Stick- 

 on margin and back with fine, barbed seed (Lappula. virginiana). 

 prickles. (Fig. 232.) 



Means of control the same as for Lappula echinata. 



MANY-FLOWERED STICKSEED 



Ldppula floribunda, Greene 



Other English names : Western Sheep-bur, Western Stickseed, Large- 

 flowered Stickseed. 



Native. Biennial or perennial. Propagates by seeds. 



Time of bloom : June to August. 



Seed time: July to September. 



Range: Ontario and Minnesota to the Saskatchewan and British 

 Columbia, southward to New Mexico and California. 



Habitat: Plains, upland pastures. 



Stems two to five feet tall, stout, erect, branching into a large 

 panicle at top. Leaves rough-hairy on both sides, oblong to 



