DESCRIPTIVE MANUAL 



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Fig. 182-A. Distribution of Large-flowered Goldenrod. 



long, feather-veined, thick and rigid, the upper sessile; heads 

 large, collected in a large compound corymb, terminating the stem. 



Distribution. — Abundant in dry soils from New England to 

 Manitoba, Dakota, Nebraska and Missouri; common in pastures in 

 Iowa, in Story, Boone, Polk, Linn, Marshall, Hardin, Cerro Gordo, 

 Winnebago, Emmet and Woodbury counties. 



Extermination. — Though it is often a very troublesome weed in 

 pastures it is easily killed by cultivation; spreads largely by 

 "seeds." 



Many-flowered Aster {Aster muttiflorus Ait.). 



Description. — ^A pale or hoary pubescent, branched perennial, 

 9 in-li/^ ft. high; heads on spreading, racemose branches; leaves 

 rigid, crowded, spreading, with ciliate margins; ray flowers white, 

 small. 



Distribution. — Common along roadsides and fields, gravelly 

 knolls, etc. 



Extermination. — Though abundant in fields readily succumbs to 

 cultivation. 



