WHITE AND GREENISH WILD FLOWERS 
foliage. It ranges from Maine and Ontario to British 
Columbia, southward to Georgia, Texas, and Arizona, 
WHORLED, OR MOUNTAIN ASTER 
Aster acuminatus. Thistle Family. 
A low-growing woodland Aster with very large, 
sharply pointed leaves so closely alternated toward the 
top of the stalk beneath the flowers as to appear as 
though they were whorled. The flowers often have 
a scrawly, bedraggled appearance that gives the plant 
an untidy effect. The somewhat hairy and zigzag 
stalk grows from one to three feet high. It is generally 
naked below with the great, drooping leaves which 
spread from the crowded top in a ragged circle. The 
thin-textured, coarsely toothed leaves are broadly ob- 
long, tapering at the apex and narrowing into a wedge- 
like base. The flower heads, few or several, are an inch 
or an inch and a half broad. The long, narrow rays, 
numbering from twelve to eighteen, are white or purple 
tinted and surround the purple-stained centre of tubular 
yellow florets. The flowers are set on long, slender stems 
that spread just above the clustered leaves. This strik- 
ing Aster is found only in cool, rich, moist woods from 
Labrador to Ontario and New York, and southward 
along the Alleghanies to Georgia, from July to October. 
DAISY FLEABANE. SWEET SCABIOUS 
Erigeron dnnuus. Thistle Family. 
The common Daisy Fleabane follows immediately 
upon the heels of Robin’s Plantain in Tune. It is one 
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