COMPOSITE FAMILY 



Southernwood. Artemisia 

 abrotanum 



a tall, slender plant of three or four stalks growing together, topped 



with a large cluster of very brilliant purple flowers. It is the most 



brilliant purple wild flower of northern 



Ohio. In height it equals the sun- 

 flowers and Joe Pye Weed. The 



leaves are alternate and scattered. 

 Blazing Star, Liairis, is a genus of 



hardy perennials which bear their 



rose-red, or purple flowers in wand- 

 like spikes; the petaloid coloring of 



the involucral bracts increasing the 



brilliancy of the flowers. The most 



showy species are Liatris Slegans and 



LicLtris pycnosthchya, both of southern 



habitat. 

 Leopard's Bane, Doronicum, is a genus of hardy composites of 



which several species are coming into general use, because they 



bloom in May. The flowers resemble large, yellow, ox-eye daisies 



and are a brilliant addition to the spring garden. 



Southernwood, Artemisia abrd- 

 tanum, is an aromatic, much- 

 branched, woody-stemmed peren- 

 nial, bearing many pale, grayish- 

 green, dissected leaves and small 

 yellowish flower-heads. It is occa- 

 sionally found in old gardens. 



Wormwood, Artemisia absinth- 

 ium, is closely allied to Southern- 

 wood and greatly resembles it. The 

 plant is two to four feet high, the 

 leaves gray, much divided, and 

 intensely bitter. The flower- 

 heads are small and yellowish. An 

 extensive use of the plant is in 



the manufacture of absinthe, of which it is the principal 



ingredient. 



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Lavender Cotton. Santolltia 

 chamacyparissus 



