COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) 443 
FIELD CAT’S-FOOT 
Antenndria neglécta, Greene 
Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds and by stolons. 
Time of bloom: April to June. 
Seed-ttme: June to July. 
Range: New Brunswick to Wisconsin and Iowa, southward to Vir- 
ginia and Kansas. 
Habitat: Fields, meadows, pastures, and waste places. 
A smaller plant than the preceding, 
but with much longer and more slender 
stolons. Root-leaves about two inches 
long, tufted in small rosettes, narrow 
spatulate or wedge-shaped, obtuse, one- 
nerved, smooth above, white-woolly be- 
neath, entire, sessile ; stem-leaves linear, 
very small. Stems of staminate plants 
four to eight inches high, the fertile ones 
often nearly a foot in height when 
mature. Heads in racemose clusters, 
similar in structure to those of the 
preceding species. (Fig. 308.) 
In some localities the Smaller: Cat’s- 
foot, A. neodioica, is even more common, 
forming large matted patches. Its 
range extends from the North Atlantic 
States westward to the Dakotas and it 
has also found its way to Northern Fie. 308.— Field Cat’s-foot 
Europe. 
(Antennaria neglecta). X }. 
Means of control the same as for the Plantain-leaved 
Everlasting. 
SWEET, OR COMMON, EVERLASTING 
Gnaphdlium polycephalum, Michx. 
(Gnaphdalium obtusifolium, L.) 
Other English names: Old Field Balsam, Sweet White Balsam, 
Balsam Posy, Fragrant Everlasting, Many-headed Everlasting, 
Chafeweed. 
Native. Annual or winter annual. Propagates by seeds. 
