424 COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) 



Seed-time: September to December. 



Range: Quebec to the Northwest Territory, southward to Florida, 



Texas, and Arizona. 

 Habitat : Dry soil ; old fields, meadows, pastures, roadsides, and 



waste places. 



Probably the commonest of the Goldenrods and one of the most 

 beautiful. Stem six inches to two feet high, simple, clothed with fine, 

 grayish hah-. Alternate leaves also roughened 

 with fine, ashy-gray hairs, the lower ones 

 spatulate, scallop-toothed, tapering to petioles, 

 often with fascicles of small leaves in their 

 axils; the upper leaves very much smaller, 

 entire, acute, and sessile. Panicle large, spread- 

 ing, recurved, usually one-sided, densely many- 

 headed, brilliant golden yellow, each tiny head 

 having five to nine rays which, as in all the 

 Goldenrods, are pistillate ; the disk florets 

 are also yellow and perfect. Achenes very 

 small, hairy, with a fine, bristly pappus. 

 (Fig. 295.) 



Means of control 



Cultivate and liberally fertilize the ground. 

 The plant has a preference for dry and sterile 

 soil, and is readily crowded out when the ground 

 is furnished with humus which enables it to 

 FIG. 295. Gray retain moisture and support the growth of 

 better Plants. Roadside and waste land plants 

 should be prevented from seed production by 

 repeated close cutting. 



SOFT OR HOARY GOLDENROD 



Soliddgo mollis, Bartl. 



Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds and by stolons. 



Time of bloom: July to September. 



Seed-time: September to November. 



Range: Manitoba and Minnesota to the Northwest Territory, 



southward to Texas and Mexico. 

 Habitat : Dry hills and plains ; meadows and pastures. 



