SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae. 



Sentdo Llmmoni This is ^ ite effective, with attractive 

 Yellow flowers and foliage, growing among rocks 



Spring on hillsides and forming large clumps 



Arizona over a f oot high. The stems are slender 



and often much bent, the leaves are dark green and thin 

 in texture with toothed edges, rolled back, and the numer- 

 ous flowers are an inch across, with bright yellow rays and 

 deep yellow centers. This plant blossoms both as an 

 annual and as a perennial. 



A rather handsome plant, with a stout 



White Squa^ gtem ^ about twQ feet tall . the upper leaveg 



Senttio cordcitus more or less downy and the root-leaves 

 White rather thick and soft, covered with whitish 



haifS n the Undef Side * The fl Wer " 



Nortwest 



heads are about three-quarters of an inch 



across, with a fuzzy, pale yellow center and white rays. 

 This grows in open woods, at rather high altitudes. 

 Senldo Riddellii A rather showy plant, from six inches 

 Yellow to two feet tall, blossoming both as an 



Spring, winter annual and as a biennial, after which it 

 Arizona d es> The w h o j e p i ant j s smO oth and the 



foliage is green or bluish-green, rather delicate and pretty. 

 The flowers are an inch to an inch and a half across and 

 they begin to appear in winter when there is little else to 

 brighten the desert mesas. This plant is abundant in 

 valley lands, though it has a wide range. 



S.muUilobdtus A rather P rett y P lant ' about a foot 



Yellow tall, with a few small leaves on the slightly 



Summer woolly stem, but most of them in a rosette 



Ariz., Utah, etc. &t the base< They are smooth> thickish 



and slightly stiff, about an inch and a half long, and neatly 

 cut into small, toothed lobes. The few flowers are in a 

 loose cluster at the top of the stem and have heads about 

 three-quarters of an inch across, with pale yellcw rays 

 and brighter yellow centers. This grows at the Grand 

 Canyon and on the dry plains of Utah and Colorado, at 

 altitudes of about seven thousand feet. 



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