SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae. 



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

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

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

 A large, handsome kind, abundant in 

 the higher mountains and growing in 

 Erigeron salsu- m i st places, as far east as Colorado. 

 gindsus The stems are downy and leafy, from one 



Lilac to two feet tall, the leaves are smooth or 



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 tall with downy stems thickish, gray- 

 Erigeron bureus 1 . , 



(Aplopappus 2 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 



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a woolly involucre, dark yellow center, and 



deep yellow rays, an unusual color among Fleabanes. 



Very cheerful, sturdy-looking flowers, 

 Seaside Daisy, . , J , . J . 



Beach Aster Wlt ^ stout hairy stems, four to ten inches 



Erigeron gltiucus tall, and stiffish, slightly hairy leaves, 

 Violet, pink rather pale in color. The handsome 



Spring, summer flowers are an j nc h and a half across, with 

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numerous violet, lilac, or pink rays and 



rather dark yellow centers. This grows near the sea and 18 

 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 ^. sh L f hi l 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 droop i ng> and t h e heads are from half 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. Cbulteri, 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 aci 

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