444 COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) 
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Time of bloom: July to September. 
Seed-time: September to November. 
Range: Nova Scotia to Manitoba, and southward 
to Florida and Texas. 
Habitat: Old fields and pastures, open woods. 
_ Although grazing cattle pass it by and it 
usurps the place of plants that they do like, 
yet it would be one country pleasure lost to 
us if this weed were entirely gone from the old 
fields and “brushlot” pastures which it fre- 
quents. Its fragrance is one of the most de- 
lightful of outdoor odors and it is very lasting. 
Stem softly woolly, one to three feet tall, 
simple or branched at the top. Leaves alter- 
nate, oblong, very narrow, pointed, sessile, taper- 
ing toward the base, dark green and smooth 
above but densely white-woolly beneath, the 
margins slightly wavy. Heads very numerous, 
several panicled clusters growing on a plant. 
Each head is oblong, few-flowered, with pistil- 
late florets in the outer rows, those in the 
center perfect; involucral bracts appressed, 
white and papery, sometimes tinged with 
brown, blunt-pointed, the outer row woolly at 
Fie. 309.— 
Sweet Everlasting 
(Gnaphalium poly. the base. Seeds smooth and very small, the 
cephalum). X%. pappus tawny yellow. (Fig. 309.) 
Means of control 
Hand-pulling or close cutting while in early bloom will prevent 
seed development. Hoe-cutting of winter rosettes. : 
CLAMMY EVERLASTING 
Gnaphdlium decirrens, Ives 
Other English names: Clammy Balsamweed, Clammy Cudweed, 
Winged Cudweed. | 
Native. Annual or biennial. Propagates by seeds. 
Time of bloom: July to September. 
Seed-time: September to October. 
