COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) 



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DWARF DANDELION 



Krigia virginica, Willd. 

 (Adopbgon carolinianum, Britton) 



Native. Annual. Propagates by seeds. 

 Time of bloom : April to August. 

 -Seed-time: May to September. 

 Range: Maine to Ontario and Minnesota, southward to Florida 



and Texas. 

 Habitat : Dry, sandy soil ; fields, meadows, and waste places. 



Like a small and delicate Dandelion, 

 with several slender stems from the same 

 root, one or two inches to a foot in 

 height, simple or occasionally branched 

 at the base. Leaves usually all basal, 

 tufted, two to six inches long, spatulate or 

 lance-shaped, irregularly cut and toothed, 

 or sometimes entire, tapering to margined 

 petioles. Heads about a half-inch broad, 

 with yellow, spreading, five-toothed rays ; 

 bracts of the involucre linear and thin, 

 becoming reflexed as the achenes ripen 

 and fall. The latter are slenderly top- 

 shaped, five-angled, with a pappus of five 

 small, rounded scales encircling an inner 

 row of fine bristles. (Fig. 363.) 



Means of control FIG 363 _ Dwarf Dan . 



Prevent seed production by cutting ^ elion (Krigia virginica) . 

 while in early bloom. Enrich and cul- 

 tivate the ground, when better plants will soon supersede the 

 weed. 



CYNTHIA 



Krigia amplexicaulis, Nutt. 

 (Adopbgon virginicum, Kuntze.) 



Other English name : Virginia Goatsbeard. 

 Native. Perennial, Propagates by seeds. 



