BORAGINACEAE (BORAGE FAMILY) 335 
Time of bloom: June to August. 
Seed time: July to September. 
Range: New Brunswick to western Ontario and Minnesota, south- 
ward to the Gulf of Mexico. 
Habitat: Upland brushy pastures, thickets, borders of woods. 
Sheep are the animals most likely to 
be grazing where this weed grows, and it 
is most damaging to their fleeces. Stems 
'slender, two to four feet tall, branching 
at the top into a widely divergent 
panicle. The root-leaves are roundish 
ovate to heart-shaped, with long, slender 
petioles; these die away before the 
coming of the fruiting stalk in the 
second year; stem-leaves oblong-ovate 
to oval, pointed at base and tip, the 
lower ones petioled, the upper ones ses- 
sile, softly hairy on both sides. Racemes 
long, very slender, swung out almost hori- 
zontally ; corolla bluish or nearly white, 
minute, its five lobes spread salver-form, 
the five stamens included in its tube. 
Burs globose, the four nutlets covered Fyg, 232. — Virginia Stick- 
on margin and back with fine, barbed seed (Lappula virginiana). 
prickles. (Fig. 232.) xh 
Means of control the same as for Lappula echinata. 
MANY-FLOWERED STICKSEED 
Léppula floribinda, Greene 
Other English names: Western Sheep-bur, Western Stickseed, Large- 
fiowered Stickseed. 
Native. Biennial or perennial. Propagates by seeds. 
Time of bloom: June to August. 
Seed time: July to September. of 
Range: Ontario and Minnesota to the Saskatchewan and British 
Columbia, southward to New Mexico and California. 
Habitat: Plains, upland pastures. 
Stems two to five feet tall, stout, erect, branching into a large 
panicle at top. Leaves rough-hairy on both sides, oblong to 
