COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) 419 



MIST FLOWER 

 Eupatbrium ccelestinum, L. 



Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds. 



Time of bloom : August to October. 



Seed-time: September to November. 



Range: New Jersey to Illinois and Kansas, southward to Florida 



and Texas. 

 Habitat : Rich soil ; moist meadows and thickets. 



Stems one to three feet tall, finely appressed-hairy, branching 

 at the fop. Leaves opposite, triangular ovate, truncate or heart- 

 shaped at base, coarsely and bluntly toothed, with prominent 

 veins and rather short petioles. Heads in rather compact corym- 

 bose clusters, each less than a quarter-inch across but very numer- 

 ous, light blue or violet, the florets five-lobed and perfect. Achenes 

 oblong, five-angled, the pappus a single funnel-formed row of 

 tawny bristles. 



Means of control the same as for Joe-Pye Weed. 



FALSE BONESET 

 Kiihnia eupatorioides, L. 



Other English name: Plume-seed. 



Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds. 



Time of bloom : August to September. 



Seed-time : September to October. 



Range : New Jersey to Ohio, and southward to Florida and Texas. 



Habitat: Dry meadows and pastures, roadsides, and waste places. 



Patches of this weed are very conspicuous in autumn because 

 of the showy, plumose heads of seed. Stem two to three feet tall, 

 springing from a large, deep-boring root, erect, finely hairy, resin- 

 ous, branching at the top. Leaves alternate, specked with resin- 

 ous dots, those near the base lance-shaped, sparingly toothed, 

 three-nerved, and short-petioled, becoming gradually linear, entire, 

 and sessile as they ascend the stalk. Florets all perfect, the 

 corollas very slender and deeply five-toothed, white or cream- 

 colored, the heads very numerous, in loosely clustered terminal 

 panicles. Achenes oblong, small, brown, ten-ribbed, attached to a 



