2 go Carduaceae 



an inch long; disc bright yellow; involucral 

 bracts linear, attenuate and spreading, 

 glandular-hairy. 



A most striking violet or purple daisy on 

 moist banks, slopes, and in moist, open wood- 

 lands; flowering during July. 



Eri eron Stem simple or branched above, 

 asper Nutt. more or less hairy, sometimes 

 Rough roughly so, 6-24 inches high. 



Fleabane. Leaves smooth, hairy or fringed 

 on the margin with hairs, entire, the basal 

 ones spatulate, obtuse, 2-4 inches long, 

 narrowed into a margined petiole; stem 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 

 obtuse or acute, the upper smaller. Heads 

 several or solitary, slender peduncled, J J- 

 an inch broad; involucre hemispheric, 

 its bracts linear, acute, or rough hairy ; 

 rays 100-150, very narrow, violet-purple 

 or nearly white, J to nearly half an inch 

 long. 



In dry soil in the lower valleys and slopes 

 of the Rockies; flowering in July. 



