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COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) 



labor of hand-pulling is not too great a price to pay in order to save 

 clean ground from being fouled with a growth so pernicious. 



FALSE DANDELION 



Pyrrhopdppus carolinianus, DC.. 

 (Sitilias carolinidna, Raf .) 



Native. Annual or biennial. Propagates by seeds. 



Time of bloom : April to July. 



Seed-time: May to August. 



Range : Delaware to Missouri, southward to Florida, Louisiana, and 



Texas. 

 Habitat : Dry soil ; fields, pastures, roadsides, and waste places. 



Very like a Dandelion in its 

 appearance but for its branched 

 and leafy stems ; these are one 

 to nearly three feet tall, slender, 

 and smooth. Basal leaves oblong 

 to lance-shaped, three to eight 

 inches long, coarsely toothed and 

 lobed, sometimes pinnatifid, nar- 

 rowing to margined petioles ; stem 

 leaves more slender, acute, en- 

 tire, sessile or partly clasping. 

 Heads solitary at summit of stem 

 and branches, nearly two inches 

 broad, with many deep yellow 

 rays ; involucre slightly hairy, its 

 outer bracts spreading, awl-like, 

 and short, subtending the linear, 

 erect, and slightly united inner 

 row. Achenes reddish brown, 

 oblong, five-ribbed, narrowed to 

 a thread-like beak, with a showy, 

 copious pappus of soft rust-red 

 hairs, surrounded at its base by 



FIG. 380. -False Dandelion (Pyr- * ri . n g f white doWn ' 

 rhopappus carolinianus). X i. 380.) 



