BUCKWHEAT FAMILY. Polygonsiccac. 



pinkish anthers. The leaves are dull-green on the upper 

 side and pale with close down on the under and grow in 1 

 cluster at the base. 



These are attractive plants, with pretty 

 Snow Balls ' ^ little balls of flowers, and are very 

 Eridgonum conspicuous on dry, rocky mesas. They 



orthocaulon^ have a number of slender, pale, downy 



Yellow, white s t em s, about ten inches tall, springing 



Spring, summer 



Northwest from a close clump of small, dull-green 



leaves, pale with down on both sides and 

 the smaller ones almost white, and bearing at the tip a 

 dense flower-cluster, about an inch and a half across, which 

 is very fuzzy and pretty. The little flowers have cream- 

 color, downy involucres, the outer sepals are broader than 

 the inner, and the pedicels, stamens, and pistil are all the 

 same color as the sepals, either very bright sulphur-yellow 

 or cream-white, but not mixed on the same plant, and 

 sometimes tinged with red. These flowers are very popu- 

 lar with children in Idaho and they make necklaces of the 

 fuzzy balls, something like "daisy chains." 



This is a big handsome plant, with a 



Endgonum . . 



compositum thicK, smooth stem, one or two feet tall 



White, yellow and woody at base, and with thickish 



Summer leaves, slightly downy, dark green in color 



Northwest Qn ^ upper g ^ e an( j w hi te w j t h c i ose 



down on the under. The flowers form feathery, cream- 

 white or yellow clusters, often more than six inches across, 

 with red buds, and are beautiful and conspicuous on bare 

 mountainsides, smelling of honey. 



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