SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae. 



the Aster group and by some authorities regarded as 

 Asters. 



Xylorrhiza A handsome plant, growing in clumps 



Xylorrhlza over two feet high, with prickly leaves and 



Lilaf ^ beautiful flowers, two inches and a half 



Spring across, with rays shading from bright 



Southwest, lilac to nearly white and yellow centers. 



Utah, Col. This is common in the Grand Canyon. 



There are a good many kinds of Arnica, natives cf the 

 northern hemisphere. This is the ancient name and a 

 European kind is much used medicinally. 



A handsome mountain flower, with a 

 Heart-leaved 

 Arnica hairy stem, from six inches to two feet 



Arnica cordifdlia tall, and velvety leaves, coarsely toothed, 

 Yellow the lower ones usually heart-shaped. The 



w^TtLo t Art flower-heads are usually single, over two 



west, except Ariz.. . 



inches across, with bright yellow rays, an 

 orange center, and a hairy involucre. This is common in 

 rich moist soil in mountain valleys, as far east as Colorado. 

 Broad-leaved ^ nan< ^ some kind, sometimes a foot 



Arnica ' anc ^ a na ^ ta ^ w ^ tn pretty flowers, about 



Arnica latifblia two inches across, with very bright yellow 

 Yellow rays. The bright green leaves are thin in 



Northwest texture and practically smooth, the lower 



ones more or less roundish, with leaf 

 stalks. This grows in mountain woods. 



There are many kinds of Artemisia; herbs or shrubs, 

 usually bitter and aromatic, widely distributed. 



This is the characteristic sort, often 



immensel y abundant and found as far east 

 Artemisia as Colorado, often tinting the landscape 



tridentita for miles with its pale and beautiful 



Yellow foliage and one of the dominant shrubs in 



the Gfeat Basin ' Jt is Vei> y branchin g 

 from one to twelve feet high, with a dis- 

 tinct trunk and shreddy bark, and the twigs and alternate 

 leaves are all gray-green, covered with silvery down, the 

 upper leaves small and toothless, the lower wedge-shaped, 

 with usually three, blunt teeth. The small yellow flowers 

 have no rays and grow in small, close clusters, forming long 

 sprays towards the ends of the branches. Sagebrush is a 

 "soil indicator" and when the prospective rancher finds 

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