SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositac. 



each other, but sprinkled over a large space, recalling the 

 little flowers in early Italian pictures. E. pumilis, of the 

 Northwest and Utah, is much the same, with white rays. 

 A large, handsome kind, abundant in 

 Large Mountain ^e higher mountains and growing in 



Er*ge*on salsu- moist P laces as far ** as Colorado. 



gindsus The stems are downy and leafy, from one 



Wac to two feet tall, the leaves are smooth or 



Summer slightly hairy, with bristle-like points, 



and the flowers are an inch and a half or 

 more across, with bright yellow centers and clear bright 

 lilac rays, not very narrow. 



A little alpine plant, about three inches 

 Yellow Fleabane ^ with downy ste ms, thickish, gray- 

 Erigeron bureus . t 



(Aplopappus S reen leaves > covered with close white 

 Brandegei) down and forming a mat of foliage on the 



Yellow rocks at high altitudes. The flowers are 



Summer rather more than half an inch across, with 



a woolly involucre, dark yellow center, and 

 deep yellow rays, an unusual color among Fleabanes. 



Very cheerful, sturdy-locking flowers, 

 Seaside Daisy, . ' , . ' 



Beach Aster with stout, nairy stems, lour to ten inches 



Erigeron gltucus tall, and stiffish, slightly hairy leaves, 

 Violet, pink rather pale in color. The handsome 



flowers are an inch and a half across with 

 numerous violet, lilac, or pink rays and 



rather dark yellow centers. This grows near the sea and is 

 common on cliffs and sandy shores, where it makes beauti- 

 ful spots of bright color. 



A pretty perennial, from one to three 



? k f e !!. 8h ' f hi / a " feet tall, usually soft and hairy, the slender 



delphia Fleabane . 



Erigeron stems usually branching above and most 



Philadelphicus of the leaves toothed. The flowers usually 

 Pink, mauve form a loose cluster at the top. the buds 

 Spring, summer droopingf and the heads are f rom hal f an 



inch to an inch across, with yellow centers 

 and a very feathery fringe of pink or pinkish rays. This 

 grows in fields and woods. There is a picture in Mathews' 

 Field Book. E. Coulteri, the large White Mountain Daisy, 

 is a beautiful kind, from six to twenty inches tall, with, 

 bright green leaves, often toothed, sometimes downy, and 

 the flowers usually single, an inch and a half across, 

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