COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) 443 



FIELD CAT'S-FOOT 



Antennaria neglecta, Greene 



Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds and by stolons. 

 Time of bloom : April to June. 

 Seed-time : June to July. 



Range: New Brunswick to Wisconsin and Iowa, southward to Vir- 

 ginia and Kansas. 

 Habitat: Fields, meadows, pastures, and waste places. 



A smaller plant than the preceding, 

 but with much longer and more slender 

 stolons. Root-leaves about two inches 

 long, tufted in small rosettes, narrow 

 spatulate or wedge-shaped, obtuse, one- 

 nerved, smooth above, white-woolly be- 

 neath, entire, sessile ; stem-leaves linear, 

 very small. Stems of staminate plants 

 four to eight inches high, the fertile ones 

 often nearly a foot in height when 

 mature. Heads in racemose clusters, 

 similar in structure to those of the 

 preceding species. (Fig. 308.) 



In some localities the Smaller Cat's- 

 foot, A. neodioica, is even more common, 

 forming large matted patches. Its 

 range extends from the North Atlantic 

 States westward to the Dakotas and it 

 has also found its way to Northern FIG. 308. Field Cat's-foot 

 Europe (Antennaria neglecta). X J. 



Means of control the same as for the Plantain-leaved 

 Everlasting. 



SWEET, OR COMMON, EVERLASTING 



Gnaphalium polycephalum, Michx. 

 (Gnaphalium obtusifdlium, L.) 



Other English names: Old Field Balsam, Sweet White Balsam, 

 Balsam Posy, Fragrant Everlasting, Many-headed Everlasting, 

 Chafeweed. 



Native. Annual or winter annual. Propagates by seeds. 



