SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae. 



Valley, is very common in the East, and becoming common 



in Yosemite meadows. 



This little weed comes from South 

 Africa > but is now common in wet places, 

 especially in the salt marshes around San 



coronopifdlia Francisco Bay, often carpeting the sand 



Yellow and mud with its succulent, trailing stems. 



Spring, summer, The bright green i eaves are alternate and 



autumn 



Cal., Or eg. smooth, clasping the stem at base, some 



with toothless edges, others variously 

 cut and lobed, and the flower-heads are about half an inch 

 or less across, like the bright yellow center of a Daisy, 

 without rays. Matricdria matricarioldes is another little 

 weed, common along roadsides, with conical, greenish- 

 yellow flower-heads, without rays, and feathery foliage, 

 which has a strong pleasant fruity smell when crushed, 

 giving it the name of Pineapple- weed and Manzanilla. 



An odd desert shrub, about three feet 



hi S h with S ra y bark and crooked, gnarly, 

 spindsa tangled branches, armed with long spines 



Yellow and clothed with small, downy, pale green 



SP rin e leaves. The flower-heads are three- 



West, etc. v 1 .^ 



quarters or an inch long, without rays, 



with pale yellow tube-shaped flowers and downy, white 

 involucres, and are so crowded on the twigs that they 

 appear to be loaded with them, but the coloring is too 

 pale to be effective. This is common in the Mohave Desert 

 and elsewhere on dry hills and plains, as far east as 

 Colorado, 



There are a great many kinds of Solidago, most of them 

 natives of North America. On the whole, the western 

 Golden- rods are not so fine as the eastern ones, nor are 

 there so many kinds, though there are quite enough to 

 puzzle the amateur, as they are difficult to distinguish. 



A handsome kind, from one to two 

 fod 2011 * G lden " feet hi g h . with flower-heads nearly three- 

 Soiiddgo eighths of an inch across, with bright 



trinervdta yellow rays and centers, forming a large, 



Yellow handsome, plume-like cluster. The stem 



and leaV6S are dul1 bluish -g reen ' rather 

 stiff and rough, the lower leaves with a 



few obscure teeth. This grows at the Grand Canyon. 

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