SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae. 



S. occidentals , Western Golden-rod, is smooth all over, with 

 leafy stems, from three to five feet tall, toothless leaves, and 

 flat-topped clusters of small, yellow, sweet-scented flowers. 

 This grows in marshes and along the banks of streams, in 

 California, Oregon, and Washington, blooming in summer 

 and autumn. 5". Californica, California Golden-rod, is 

 from two to four feet high, with grayish-green, roughish 

 leaves, the lower ones toothed, and small yellow flowers, 

 forming dense pyramidal clusters, from four to thirteen 

 inches long. This grows on dry plains and hillsides and in 

 the mountains, throughout California and in Oregon, 

 blooming in the autumn. It is called Orojo de Leabre 

 by the Spanish-Californians. 



There are probably over a thousand different kinds of 

 Senecio, very widely distributed. The name is from the 

 Latin for "old man, " in allusion to the long white hairs of 

 the pappus, when "gone to seed." Our kinds have many 

 common names, such as Groundsel, Ragwort, and Squaw- 

 weed. 



A conspicuous plant and quite hand- 

 Stnicio perpUxu* some > though its flowers are rather untidy- 

 oar, dispar looking, for, like many other Senecios, 

 Yellow the rays do not come out evenly. It is 

 Spring, summer about twQ feet hi h with a stout ^ hollow, 

 Utah, Idaho 



ridged stem, sparsely woolly, and dark 



green, thickish leaves, with shallow and uneven teeth and 

 covered with sparse, fine, white woolly hairs, as if partially 

 rubbed off. The flowers are over an inch across, with 

 bright yellow rays, curling back in fading, an orange center, 

 fading to brown, and the bracts of the involucre tipped with 

 black. This grows in moist rich soil, in mountain valleys. 



A handsome bush, about three feet high, 

 Creek Senecio . 



Seredo Dougldsii covered with many flowers, on slender 

 Yellow flower-stalks, sticking up out of a mass of i 



Spring, summer, rather delicate foliage, which is often 



autumn covered with white cottonv wool. The 



Southwest 



flowers are an inch and three-quarters 



across, with bright light yellow, rather untidy rays and 

 yellow centers. This grows in dry stream beds and on 

 warm slopes in the foothills. 



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