424. COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) . 
Seed-time: September to December. : 
Range: Quebec to the Northwest Territory, southward to Florida, 
Texas, and Arizona. . 
Habitat: Dry soil; old fields, meadows, pastures, roadsides, and 
waste places. 
Probably the commonest of the Goldenrods and one of the most 
beautiful. Stem six inches to two feet high, simple, clothed with fine, 
grayish hair. Alternate leaves also roughened 
with fine, ashy-gray hairs, the lower ones 
spatulate, scallop-toothed, tapering to petioles, 
often with fascicles of small leaves in their 
axils; the upper leaves very much smaller, 
entire, acute, and sessile. Panicle large, spread- 
ing, recurved, usually one-sided, densely many- 
headed, brilliant golden yellow, each tiny head 
having five to nine rays which, as in all the 
‘Goldenrods, are pistillate; the disk florets 
are also yellow and perfect. Achenes very 
small, hairy, with a fine, bristly pappus. 
(Fig. 295.) 
Means of control 
Cultivate and liberally fertilize the ground. 
The plant has a preference for dry and sterile 
soil, and is readily crowded out when the ground 
1 is furnished with humus which enables it to 
Fic. 295.— Gray retain Incisture and support the growth of 
proach be os Wicd better plants. Roadside and waste land plants 
Pe should be prevented from seed production by 
repeated close cutting. 
SOFT OR HOARY GOLDENROD 
Solidago méllis, Bartl. 
Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds and by stolons. 
Time of bloom: July to September. 
Seed-time: September to November. 
Range: Manitoba and Minnesota to the Northwest Territory, 
southward to Texas and Mexico. 
Habitat: Dry hills and plains; meadows and pastures. 
