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Means of control 



This weed is at once suppressed by cultivation of the ground ; 

 but where that is not practicable or desirable, the plant may be 

 destroyed by hoe-cutting below the crown. 



PHILADELPHIA FLEABANE 

 Erigeron philadelphicus, L. 



Other English names: Skevish, Lowground Fleabane. 



Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds, stolons, and off-sets. 



Time of bloom: May to August. 



Seed-time: June to September. 



Range : Throughout North America except the 



far North. 

 Habitat : Alluvial soil ; fields, meadows, and 



thickets. 



Often spoken of as the "common" Fleabane, 

 but not usually an abundant weed, for it has 

 decided preferences, growing only on moist 

 ground and liking partial shade. 



Stems one to three feet high, single or in 

 tufts of two or three, slender, leafy, softly 

 hairy. Lower leaves spatulate to long-obo- 

 vate, obtuse, coarsely toothed, narrowing to 

 short-margined petioles ; stem-leaves more nar- 

 row and pointed, often entire, clasping by a 

 heart-shaped base. Heads in a corymbose 

 terminal cluster, each nearly an inch broad, 

 with greenish yellow disks and innumerable 

 thin, fringy rays, pale pink or pinkish purple, 

 sometimes nearly white. Achenes hairy, with 

 pappus of one funnel-formed row of fine 

 hair. These seeds are a common impurity of 

 grass and clover seeds, though, being small 

 and light, they should be readily removed. 



(Fie 303 ) FlG - 303 ' "~ phUa ' 



, delphia Fleabane 



Controlled by drainage and cultivation or (Erigeron philadd- 

 the ground. phicus). x|. 



