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Chicory Family 



Chicoriaceae 



A family closely allied to the Sunflower family (Compositae). Stems 

 usually with milky, acrid or bitter juice. Flowers in heads, surrounded by 

 involucral bracts; flowers all alike and perfect. Calyx tube completely 

 adnate to the ovary, its limb (pappus) of scales, simple or plumose bristles, 

 or both wanting. Corolla gamopetalous, with a short or long tube, and a 

 strap-shaped (ligulate), usually five-toothed limb (ray). 



In addition to those species illustrated here, the Chicory family con- 

 tains many other species, including the common Chicory, Dandelion, 

 Oyster Plant or Salsify, Sow Thistle, Lettuce, Wild Prickly Lettuce and 

 several additional species of Hawkweeds and Rattlesnake weeds. 



Devil' s-paintbrush; Orange Hawkweed 



Ilicraciiim aurantiaciiin Linnaeus 



Plate 223b 



A perennial, low-growing, very hairy weed, spreading by means of 

 vigorous and rapidly growing leafy stolons. Leaves basal, spatulate or 

 oblong, blunt at the apex, narrowed at the base, visually entire, 2 to 5 

 inches long, one-fourth to i inch wide, very hairy. Flowers borne on a 

 slender, hairy, leafless stem (rarely with one or two small leaves), 6 to 20 

 inches high, the heads of flowers bright orange-red in color, one-half to i 

 inch broad, few or several in a rather dense inflorescence or cluster at 

 the summit of the stem, the upper part of the stem and the inflorescence 

 thickly dotted with black, glandular-tipped hairs. Flowers of the head 

 all alike, with five-toothed, strap-shaped corollas. Involucres one-third 

 to one-half of an inch high, composed of linear-lanceolate green bracts, 

 densely covered with black hairs, the bracts arranged in two or three 

 series. 



In fields, woods and along roadsides, widely distributed as an obnoxious 



