COMPOSITE FAMILY 



on an average one inch broad, hemispheric; involucre 

 hemispheric, its outer bracts often large and leaf-like. 



THE FRUIT: achenes; pappus armed with bristles. 



A bushy, but by no means stalwart plant, a frequenter 

 of the damp thicket border, on the edges of ponds, with 

 narrow, smooth, and lance-shaped leaves, coarsely and 

 sharply toothed, and small but fairly conspicuous round 

 heads of yellow flowerets. 



COMPOSITE COMPOSITE FAMILY 



Achillea millefolium, L. 



Oyster-white or Yarrow, Sand-leaved Clover* 



crimson-pink Milfoil, Bloodwort, 



Thousand-leaf, Cammock, 



June-October Nosebleed-weed, Carpenter's Grass, 



Soldier's Dog-daisy, 



Woundwort, Green Arrow, 



Sanguinary, Old Man's-pepper. 



Achillea: because its virtues are said to have been found 



by Achilles. 

 Millefolium: Latin for a thousand-leaf. 



THE PREFERRED HABITAT: gardens, roadsides, Commons. 



THE PLANT: erect, one foot to two feet high, simple or stiffly 

 branched at the top; the stem leafy, with short, soft hairs. 



THE LEAVES: alternate; narrowly oblong or lanceolate; 

 some of them ten inches long and one half inch wide; with 

 soft, matted wool or short hairs or even hairless on both 

 surfaces; acute at the apex; narrow at the base; petioled 

 or sessile; very finely dissected. 



THE FLOWER HEADS: numerous in compound, dense, some- 

 what convex or flat-topped corymbs; yellowish at the cen- 

 tre; the involucre ovoid; the bracts oblong, obtusish; the 

 five rays oyster- white. 



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