COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) 419 
MIST FLOWER 
Eupatorium celestinum, L. 
Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds. 
Time of bloom: August to October. 
Seed-time: September to November. 
Range: New Jersey to Illinois and Kansas, southward to Florida 
and Texas. 
Habitat: Rich soil; moist meadows and thickets. 
Stems one to three feet tall, finely appressed-hairy, branching 
at the top. Leaves opposite, triangular ovate, truncate or heart- 
shaped at base, coarsely and bluntly toothed, with prominent 
veins and rather short petioles. Heads in rather compact corym- 
bose clusters, each less than a quarter-inch across but very numer- 
ous, light blue or violet, the florets five-lobed and perfect. Achenes 
oblong, five-angled, the pappus a single funnel-formed row of 
tawny bristles. 
Means of control the same as for Joe-Pye Weed. 
FALSE BONESET 
Kiuhnia eupatorioides, L. 
Other English name: Plume-seed. 
Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds. 
Time of bloom: August to September. 
Seed-time: September to October. 
Range: New Jersey to Ohio, and soughward to Florida and Texas. 
Habitat: Dry meadows and pastures, roadsides, and waste places. 
Patches of this weed are very conspicuous in autumn because 
of the showy, plumose heads of seed. Stem two to three feet tall, 
springing from a large, deep-boring root, erect, finely hairy, resin- 
ous, branching at the top. Leaves alternate, specked with resin- 
ous dots, those near the base lance-shaped, sparingly toothed, 
three-nerved, and short-petioled, becoming gradually linear, entire, 
and sessile as they ascend the stalk. Filorets all perfect, the 
corollas very slender and deeply five-toothed, white or cream- 
colored, the heads very numerous, in loosely clustered terminal 
panicles. Achenes oblong, small, brown, ten-ribbed, attached to a 
