COMPOSITE FAMILY. Composite. 



Robin's 

 Plantain 



Krigeron 

 bellidtfulhi. 

 Lilac or 

 pale violet 

 May-June 



A rather large-flowered plant which is 

 frequently coaimunistic, tinting the road- 

 side or tield with its delicate lilac. The 

 light olive green stem and leaves are very 

 soft-hairy, the basal leaves broad at the 

 tip and indistinctly toothed. The showy 

 flowers, 1 inch broad, vary from lilac or 

 magenta to a violet-purple ; the somewhat green-yellow 

 disc is broader than the fine rays are long. Fertilized 

 by bumblebees and honeybees (the most frequent visitors) 

 and butterflies. 10-22 inches high. Common every- 

 where. 



Common ^ similar but taller plant with light ma- 



Fleabane genta or pale pink flowers and a soft-hairy 



Erigerun (rarely smooth) stem ; 1-2 feet high. Com- 



Philadelphicus ^^^j^ throughout our range, but less fre- 

 quent than E. beUidifolius, and blooming to August. 



A small plant with short white hairs ; 

 the three-ribbed basal leaves broad near 

 the tip, the stalks nearly as long as the 

 leaf. Upper stem leaves lance-shaped. 

 The linear scales of the small, J inch long 

 flower-head are green or tawny at the 

 base, and white or purplish at the tip. The outer bracts 

 blunt and the inner ones acute. 4-18 inches high. 

 Mass., south to La., and west. The var. petiolata is 

 lower and slenderer, with ovate, blunt-pointed basal 

 leaves on slender, long stalks. The calyx is more pur- 

 ple-tinged, with the bracts shorter and narrower. A 

 familiar type of southern N. Eng., very common in east- 

 ern Mass. on dry slopes and open woods ; also in dry 

 fields of southern N. H. 



A species with larger flower-heads. The 

 basal leaves gray soft-hairy above, and the 

 greenish or tawny scales of the calyx have 

 rather dry petallike tips. Northern N. 

 Eng., south to La., and west. 



Everlasting 

 or Pussy=toes 



Antennaria 

 plcditaginea 

 White 

 May-June 



Antennaria 



fallax 



May-June 



500 



