Yellow and Orange 



The Jerusalem artichoke sends up from its thickened, fleshy, 

 tuber-bearing rootstock, hairy, branching stems six to twelve feet 

 high. Especially are the flower-stalks rough, partly to discourage 

 pilfering crawlers. The firm, oblong leaves, taper pointed at the 

 apex and saw-edged, are rough above, the lower leaves oppo- 

 site each other on petioles, the upper alternate. The brilliant 

 flower-heads, which are produced freely in September and Octo- 

 ber, defying frost, are about two or three inches across, and con- 

 sist of from twelve to twenty lively yellow rays around a dull 

 yellow disk. The towering prolific plant prefers moist but not 

 wet soil from Georgia and Arkansas northward to New Bruns- 

 wick and the Northwest Territory. Omnivorous small boys are 

 not always particular about boiling, not to say washing, the roots 

 before eating them. 



Lance-leaved Tickseed ; Golden Coreopsis 



{Coreopsis lanceolata) Thistle family 



Flowers-heads — Showy, bright golden yellow, the 6 to lo wedge- 

 shaped, coarsely toothed ray florets around yellowish disk 

 florets soon turning brown ; each head on a very long, smooth, 

 slender footstalk. Stems: i to 2 ft. high, tufted. Leaves: A 

 few seated on stem, lance-shaped to narrowly oblong; or 

 lower ones crowded, spatulate, on slender petioles. 



Preferred Habitat — Open, sunny places, moist or dry. 



Flowering Season — May — September. 



Distribution — Western Ontario to Missouri and the Gulf States; 

 escaped from gardens in the East. 



Glorious masses of this prolific bloomer persistently outshine 

 all rivals in the garden beds throughout the summer. Cut as 

 many slender-stalked flowers and buds as you will for vases in- 

 doors, cut them by armfuls, and two more soon appear for every 

 one taken. From seeds scattered by the wind over a dry, sandy 

 field adjoining a Long Island garden one autumn, myriads of these 

 flowers swarmed like yellow butterflies the next season. Very 

 slight encouragement induces this coreopsis to run wild in the East. 

 Grandiflora, with pinnately parted narrow leaves and similar 

 flowers, a Southwestern species, is frequently a runaway. Bees 

 and flies, attracted by the showy neutral rays which are borne 

 solely for advertising purposes, unwittingly cross-fertilize the heads 

 as they crawl over the tiny, tubular, perfect florets massed to- 

 gether in the central disk ; for some of these florets having the 

 pollen pushed upward by hair brushes and exposed for the vis- 

 itor's benefit, while others have their sticky style branches spread 



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