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Range: Quebec to British Columbia, S9uthward to Pennsylvania, 

 Ohio, Michigan, and Minnesota and in the Rocky Mountains to 

 Arizona. 



Habitat: Upland pastures, clearings, open woods. 



At first sight and smell this might be mistaken for Sweet Ever- 

 lasting, but on handling it the white, woolly stem is found to be 

 glandular and slightly sticky. Leaves sharp-pointed, slightly 

 broader than those of the preceding plant, smooth above, white- 

 woolly below, sessile, with a decurrent base. Heads a little shorter 

 and thicker, fragrant, closely clustered ; their involucral scales are 

 cream-white to pale brownish yellow, pointed oval in shape, the 

 outer row woolly at their bases. 



For its extermination the same measures are necessary as for 

 Sweet Everlasting. 



LOW CUDWEED 

 Gnaphalium uliginosum, L. 



Other English names: Marsh Cudweed, Wartwort, Mouse-ear. 



Native. Annual. Propagates by seeds. 



Time of bloom: July to September. 



Seed-time : September to November. 



Range: Newfoundland to the Saskatchewan, southward to the 



states bordering on the Great Lakes. 

 Habitat: Low meadows, sides of streams and ditches, roadsides, 



and waste places. 



Although this plant loves moisture and is a 

 common weed of flooded ground, it can adapt 

 itself to very different conditions ; the writer 

 found the specimen from which this description 

 is written thriving in the dry ground of a vacant 

 city lot. (Fig. 310.) 



Stem two to six inches tall, with many 

 branches, the lower ones spreading on the 

 ground, making it much broader than its height. 

 The plant is covered all over, stems and leaves, 

 with close-pressed, white wool. Leaves sessile, 



spatulate to lance-shaped, narrow, pointed, and _ 



, 1-11 i i Cudweed r- 



but one or two inches long. Flower-heads white, u um uliginosum). 



very small, in close-packed terminal clusters sur- x i. 



