YELLOW AND ORANGE WILD FLOWERS 
They close at noon in the hot sun. These flowers are 
usually in bloom before the Dandelions. The leaves 
do not appear until after the flowers have matured. 
At: first they are rounded and heart-shaped, but fin- 
ally become larger and more angled. Their surface 
is soft and cottony, and is strongly marked with ribs 
and veinings. They are thin-textured, and their 
margins are more or less toothed. ‘They are silvery 
on the under side, and are set on long, grooved stems 
that rise from the rootstock. Coltsfoot may be found 
from April to June, from Nova Scotia and New Bruns- 
wick to Massachusetts, New York and Minnesota, 
where it has become naturalized from Europe. It 
prefers moist banks along roadways and streams. 
GOLDEN RAGWORT. LIFE-ROOT. SWAMP 
SQUAW-WEED. FALSE VALERIAN 
Sanécio auréus. Thistle Family. 
The attractive, rich, golden-yellow flowers of this 
Daisy-like perennial appear in May and June in 
moist meadows and thickets, and in swamps. It is 
strikingly clean cut and beautiful. The slender, 
usually smooth, upright stalk is hollow and sparingly | 
leafy. It is angular and twisting in growth, and rise8 
from one to two and a half feet in height, solitary or 
tufted, from a strong-scented root. The lower leaves 
are long stemmed, and are long, rounding, heart- 
shaped, with scallop-toothed edges. Those on the 
stalk are partly clasping, and are lance-shaped and 
deeply cut and notched. The foliage is smooth and 
thin, and together with the stalk is often stained with 
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