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COTTON ROSE 



Gifola germdnica, Dumort 



Other English names: Herba Impia, Childing Cudweed, Downy- 

 weed, Owl's Crown, Hoarwort. 

 Introduced. Annual. Propagates by seeds. 

 Time of bloom: June to September. 

 Seed-time: August to November. 

 Range: Atlantic States, New York to Georgia. 

 Habitat : Dry fields and pastures. 



Its oddity tempts one to take a few plants to the home 

 flower garden when first seeing a patch of this weed. Stems 

 five to fifteen inches high, simple or branching from the base, 

 the whole plant grayish white with soft woolly 

 hair. Leaves alternate and crowded thick on 

 the stem, lance-shaped, sessile, acute, erect, 

 less than an inch long. At the top of the stalk 

 is bunched a dense cluster of white-woolly discoid 

 flower-heads, from among which rise several short, 

 leafy branches, like the stalk below but more 

 slender, and these in turn may have a bunch of 

 woolly flower-heads and more leafy branches 

 terminated by more woolly blossoms. For this 

 odd habit of bloom it is called Childing Cud- 

 weed, and the early botanists named it Herba 

 Impia because the children so undutifully ex- 

 alted themselves above their mother. (Fig. 306.) 



Means of control 



The lowest cluster of flower-heads ripens first, 



and in order to keep them from reproduction , ._, 



, . . , Cotton Rose (Gi- 



the plants must be cut as soon as these appear, f i a ge rmanicd). 



before any "children" overtop them. x J. 



PLANTAIN-LEAVED EVERLASTING 

 Antennaria plantaginifdlia, Richards 



Other English names : Early or Spring Everlasting, Mouse-ear Ever- 

 lasting, White Plantain, Ladies' Tobacco, Pussy-toes. 

 Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds and by stolons. 



