COMPOSITE FAMILY. Composite. 



A. not very common species, the stem 



ou o en- Y^^ij-y above and rarely branched, with 



Solidago large, broad, coarsely toothed, feather- 



squarrosa veined leaves, and with rather showy 



Golden yellow flowers ; the 10-16 rays nearly i inch long, 



ugus - J tubular florets 15-24 in a single flower- 



October *= 



head the scales of which are strongly 



curved outward. The flower plume generally straight. 

 Plant 2-5 feet high. On rocky hillsides, and the mar- 

 gins of woods. Me., south to the mountains of Va., 

 and west to Vt., the Catskills, N. Y., Penn., and Ohio. 



A late-blooming, graceful, slender, wood- 

 Golden=rod ^'^^d golden-rod, with a distinct bluish or 

 Solidago purplish, plumlike bloom on the bending 



ccesia stem. The leaves dark green, feather- 



Late August- veined, smootli, sharply toothed, lance- 

 shaped, and sharp-pointed. The flowers in 

 small oblong clusters at the junction of leaf-stem witli 

 plant-stem, and not in a distinct terminal cluster ; 3-5 

 rays in a single flower-head, ^^ inch broad, quite long, 

 and very light golden yellow. 1-3 feet high, tommon 

 on shaded banks, and margins of woods, everywhere. 



^ . ^ A similar species, but with broad, olive 



Broad=leaved „ , . ■. , ■ -, 



Golden=rod green, feather-vemed leaves pomted at 



Solidago both ends; the stem lighter green, zig-zag, 



latifolia angled in section, and rarely branched. 



August- rpj^g j.gj^^ golden yellow flowers in small 



clusters (like S. ccpsia), with but 3-4 rays. 

 1-3 feet high. Rich, moist, wooded banks. Me., south 

 to Ga. , west to S. Dak. Found in the Catskill Mountains. 



«,.-.^ ^ .. -^ very common species; the onlv one 



White Golden= ., , .. r, -r ,,\. , 



rod or Silver= ^^^^^'^^ white flowers. Leaves elliptical, 

 rod feather-veined, rough-hairy, very lightly 



Solidago bicoior tootlicd, and dark olive green above, the 

 s"^"**h ^^^^ beneath hairy. Stem simple or 



branched, upright, and gray-hair}'. Tubu- 

 lar florets cream yellow, surrounded by 3-12 white rays ; 

 flower-clusters mignonettelike, small, and at the leaf- 

 junctions or crowded in a cylindrical terminal spike. 

 10-30 inches high. On diy barren ground. Me., south 

 to Ga., and west to Minn, and Mo. A yellow-flowered 



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