444 COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) 



Time of bloom : July to September. 

 Seed-time: September to November. 



Range : Nova Scotia to Manitoba, and southward 

 to Florida and Texas. 



Habitat: Old fields and pastures, open woods. 



Although grazing cattle pass it by and it 

 usurps the place of plants that they do like, 

 yet it would be one country pleasure lost to 

 us if this weed were entirely gone from the old 

 fields and "brushlot" pastures which it fre- 

 quents. Its fragrance is one of the most de- 

 lightful of outdoor odors and it is very lasting. 



Stem softly woolly, one to three feet tall, 

 simple or branched at the top. Leaves alter- 

 nate, oblong, very narrow, pointed, sessile, taper- 

 ing toward the base, dark green and smooth 

 above but densely white-woolly beneath, the 

 margins slightly wavy. Heads very numerous, 

 several panicled clusters growing on a plant. 

 Each head is oblong, few-flowered, with pistil- 

 late florets in the outer rows, those in the 

 center perfect ; involucral bracts appressed, 

 white and papery, sometimes tinged with 



c, ^ 3 ? 9 I-~ brown, blunt-pointed, the outer row woolly at 



Sweet Everlasting . , 



(Gnaphalium poly- the base. Seeds smooth and very small, the 



cephalum). x i. pappus tawny yellow. (Fig. 309.) 



Means of control ' 



Hand-pulling or close cutting while in early bloom will prevent 

 seed development. Hoe-cutting of winter rosettes. 



CLAMMY EVERLASTING 

 Gnaphalium decurrens, Ives 



Other English names: Clammy Balsamweed, Clammy Cudweed, 



Winged Cudweed. 



Native. Annual or biennial. Propagates by seeds. 

 Time of bloom: July to September. 

 Seed-time: September to October. 



