YELLOW AND ORANGE WILD FLOWERS 
a rule, avoid the Golden-rods as a steady diet, and are 
particularly keen to avoid this rough Bitterweed. 
GRAY, OR FIELD GOLDEN-ROD. DYER’S WEED 
Solidago nemoralts. Thistle Family. 
This common species raises its slender, ashy-gray 
stalk from six inches to two feet high. It is single, 
very leafy, and covered with minute whitish hairs. 
It has been considered one of the most brilliant of 
its kind, on account of its exceedingly rich, yellow 
flowers. It is a low-growing plant, and ‘is somewhat 
late to appear in flower. The thick, roughish leaves 
are three-ribbed, and the lower ones are broadest and 
taper into stems. As they mount the stalk, they gradu- 
ate rapidly into long, narrow-pointed affairs, and 
their margins are slightly toothed. The pretty, five 
to nine rayed flowers are set on little recurving stems 
toward the top of the stalk, forming a close, suc- 
ceeding series of flat-topped, leafy clusters that finally 
compose the beautiful, one-sided plume. This plant 
is found in fields and dry roadsides, from July to 
November. It ranges from Quebec and the Northwest 
Territory to Florida, Texas, and Arizona. 
CANADA GOLDEN-ROD. YELLOW-WEED 
Solidago canadénsis. Thistle Family. 
Here is a feather duster of glowing gold, and a close 
rival of the elegant Showy or Noble Golden-rod. It 
is probably the largest, showiest, and most common 
of them all—jif not, indeed, the handsomest. It 
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