COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) 437 
Means of control 
This weed is at once suppressed by cultivation of the ground ; 
but where that is not practicable or desirable, the plant may be 
destroyed by hoe-cutting below the crown. 
PHILADELPHIA FLEABANE 
Erigeron philadélphicus, L. 
Other English names: Skevish, Lowground Fleabane. 
Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds, stolons, and off-sets. 
Time of bloom: May to August. 
Seed-time: June to September. 
Range: Throughout North America except the 
far North. 
Habitat: Alluvial soil; fields, meadows, and 
thickets. 
Often spoken of as the “common” Fleabane, 
but not usually an abundant weed, for it has 
decided preferences, growing only on moist 
ground and liking partial shade. 
Stems one to three feet high, single or in 
tufts of two or three, slender, leafy, softly 
hairy. Lower leaves spatulate to long-obo- 
vate, obtuse, coarsely toothed, narrowing to 
short-margined petioles; stem-leaves more nar- 
row and pointed, often entire, clasping by a 
heart-shaped base. Heads in a corymbose 
terminal cluster, each nearly an inch broad, 
with greenish yellow disks and innumerable 
thin, fringy rays, pale pink or pinkish purple, 
sometimes nearly white. Achenes hairy, with 
pappus of one funnel-formed row’ of fine 
hair. These seeds are a common impurity of 
grass and clover seeds, though, being small 
and light, they should be readily removed. i 
* Fic. 303. — Phila- 
(Fig. 303.) delphia Fleabane 
Controlled by drainage and cultivation of (Hrigeron  philadel- 
the ground. ; phicus), X%. ~ 
