COMPOSITE FAMILY 



COMPOSITAE 



DWARF DANDELION 



Krigia <virginica (L.) Willd. 



The Dwarf Dandelion grows in sandy soil from Maine to 

 Minnesota and south to Florida and Texas. It is annual and does 

 not produce an upright stem. It has a rosette of leaves like a 



Dandelion, and usually several smooth, 

 slender peduncles 1-15 inches long^ each 

 of which bears i head of yellow strap- 

 shaped flowers. 



The blooming season is April to 

 August. The involucre is made up of 

 9-18 bracts arranged in 2 series of nearly 

 I equal length. When the fruits are mature 

 these bracts are turned down. The re- 

 ceptacle is flat and naked. The akenes 

 are somewhat 5-angled and 15-20- 

 ribbed. The pappus is in 1 parts, the 

 outer composed of 5 thin rounded scales 

 and the inner of 10 or more slender 

 bristles. 



The Cynthia, Krigia amplexicaulis 

 Nutt., is found in moist open places and 

 blooms from May to October. It is per- 

 ennial and in addition to a rosette of basal 

 leaves produces a stem 1-2 feet high, 

 which bears 1-3 oblong and nearly entire 

 leaves produces a stem 1-2 feet high, 

 which bears 1-3 oblong and nearly entire 

 leaves with clasping bases, and 1-6 long- 

 peduncled heads of orange flowers, about 

 i^ inches broad. The basal leaves are 1-7 

 inches long and are narrowed into bordered 

 petioles. The pappus is composed ot 10-15 

 small oblong scales and about the same 

 number ot bristles. 



Another Dwarf Dandelion or the 

 Goatsbeard, Krigia Dandelion (L.) Xutt., 

 is a small perennial having much the appearance oi a diminutive 

 dandelion. A rosette of oblong-spatulate to linear-lanceolate leaves 

 arises from a cluster of slender tuber-bearing roots. The scape is 

 6-18 inches high and bears generally a single head about 1 inch 

 broad and composed entirely of yellow strap-shaped corollas. 

 The akenes are nearly oblong and crowned by a pappus ot about 12 

 small scales. This is a more southern species, living on moist soil 

 from Maryland and Florida, west to Illinois, Kansas and Texas, and 

 blooming from April to June. 



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