BLUE AND PURPLE WILD FLOWERS 
Ontario and Minnesota, south to North Carolina, 
Ohio and Michigan. 
ROBIN’S PLANTAIN. POOR ROBIN’S PLANTAIN, 
ROSE PETTY. ROBERT’S PLANTAIN. 
BLUE SPRING DAISY 
Erigeron pulchéllus. Thistle Family. 
The Blue Spring Daisy would seem to be a sort of 
favourite name for this earliest of the Aster or Daisy- 
like flowers. It is found in the grass in damp fields and 
on hillsides or banks along woodland borders, where 
the direct sunlight is broken into shaded spots. It 
flourishes in scattered communities, and blooming as 
it does, from April through June, it is not likely to be 
confused with any of the later-flowering Asters, which 
it strongly suggests. One can tell this species from an 
Aster by its hairy surface, and also by the rosette of 
basal leaves — noticeable characteristics which the 
Asters do not possess. It is a perennial, and may be 
found in the same locality year after year, where it 
increases by stolens and offsets. The singular, hairy, 
light green stalk is thick and juicy, and rises from ten to 
twenty inches high, from a rosette of leaves. It is 
hollow, grooved and sparingly leafy. The flowers 
are rather large and pleasing, and several of them are 
borne in a terminal flat-topped cluster. They are 
Daisy-like in design, with a bright yellow centre of 
many small disc florets, surrounded with a finely cut 
fringe of ray flowers of a light bluish purple. The 
latter colour varies greatly, and often it is faded white, 
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