SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Composttae. 



Fleabane 

 Erigeron Breweri 

 Purple 

 Summer 

 California 



Whip-lash 



Fleabane 



Erigeron 



flagellbris 



White, pink 



Summer 



Ariz., Utah, etc. 



This is rather pretty, with slender, 

 brittle, downy stems, from six to eighteen 

 inches tall, and small, narrow, rough, dull 

 green leaves. The flowers grow singly, at 

 the ends of short leafy branches, and are 

 each less than an inch across, with rather few violet or 

 pinkish-purple rays and a yellow center. This is common 

 around Yosemite and looks a good deal like an Aster. 



A rather odd-looking plant, with numer- 

 ous, very slender, weak, branching stems, 

 trailing on the ground, and very small, 

 toothless, grayish-green, downy leaves, 

 forming a rather dense, low bush, about 

 two and a half feet across, the long sprays 

 interlacing and dotted here and there 

 with pretty little flowers, with numerous fine, white, pink- 

 tipped rays and a yellow center. The sprays often take 

 root at the tip. This grows in the Grand Canyon, and 

 is found as far east as Colorado. 



Rayless Fleabane ^ rather attractive little plant, forming 

 small clumps, about five inches high, with 

 several very hairy stems and light dull 

 green, very hairy leaves. The many 

 flower-heads are less than half an inch 

 across, deep yellow, without rays. This 

 grows on dry plains and mesas, as far 

 east as Colorado, and has a rather starved appearance. 



A dear little common plant, from six 

 to fifteen inches high, with several slender, 

 branching, hairy stems, and soft, hairy, 

 gray-green leaves, the upper ones small 

 and narrow, without leaf-stalks and the 

 lower ones sometimes with two or three 

 lobes and with leaf-stalks. The flower- 

 heads, several or many, on slender flower- 

 stalks, measure nearly an inch across in spring, but are 

 smaller in summer, and have numerous very narrow rays, 

 white towards the center, shading to bright violet or pit 

 at the tips, with a bright yellow center. This often grcn 

 in quantities on dry plains and mountain-sides, as fa 

 east as Texas, and is quite charming, the tufts of foliag 

 dotted with pretty delicate little flowers, not toi 

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Erigeron con- 



cinnus var. 



aphan&ctis 



Yellow 



Spring 



Utah, Nev., Cal. 



etc. 



Spreading 



Fleabane 



Erigeron 



divergens 



Violet 



Spring, summer, 



autumn 



West, etc. 



