COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY)- 



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Erigeron, Fleabane; a, E. pulchellus; h, 

 philadelphicus. 



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E. philadelphicus, Fleabane. Hairy; stem leafy, corymbed, bearing 

 several small heads; leaves oblong, the upper clasping by a heart- 

 shaped base, entire, the lowest spatulate, 

 toothed; rays much more numerous, very nar- 

 row, rose-purple or flesh^color. Generally in 

 rich soil. May to August. 



ANTENNARIA 



White-woolly herbs, 

 with entire leaves 

 and eorymbose or 

 racemose heads. 

 Heads many-flowered, 

 dioecious; flowers all 

 tubular. Involucre 

 dry and scarious, 

 white or colored, im- 

 bricated. A c h e n e s 

 terete or flattish ; pap- 

 pus a single row of bristles. ; 



A. canadensis, Everlasting. Forming broad mats; stems slender; 

 basal leaves small, spatulate to oblanceolate ; stem leaves scattered; 

 heads loosely corymbose; styles pale, drying 

 brownish. Dry soil. May to July. 



A. plantaginifolia. Plantain-leaved 

 Everlasting. Basal leaves from broadly 

 ovate to oblanceolate; stem leaves scattered, 

 lanceolate; heads loosely or densely corymb- 

 ose; styles crimson. Dry soil. April to 

 June. 



RUDBECKIA 



Herbs, with alternate leaves, and showy 

 terminal heads. Heads many-flowered. 

 Everlasting; ^ith yellow rays. Bracts of the involucre 

 leaf-like, spreading. Receptacle conical 

 or columnar. Achenes 4-angled, smooth, 

 with no pappus. 



R. hirta. Black-eyed Susan. Very rough and bristly-hairy through- 

 out; stems simple or branched near the base, naked above, bearing 



Antennaria 

 staminate 

 (left) ; pistillate inflores- 

 cence (right) ; base of 

 stem. 



