COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) 445 
Range: Quebec to British Columbia, southward to Pennsylvania, 
Ohio, Michigan, and Minnesota and in the Rocky Mountains to 
Arizona. 
Habitat: Upland pastures, clearings, open woods. 
At first sight and smell this might be mistaken for Sweet Ever- 
lasting, but on handling it the white, woolly stem is found to be 
glandular and slightly sticky. Leaves sharp-pointed, slightly 
broader than those of the preceding plant, smooth above, white- 
woolly below, sessile, with a decurrent base. Heads a little shorter 
and thicker, fragrant, closely clustered ; their involucral scales are 
cream-white to pale brownish yellow, pointed oval in shape, the 
outer row woolly at their bases. 
For its extermination the same measures are necessary as for 
Sweet Everlasting. 
LOW CUDWEED 
Gnaphdlium uligindsum, L. 
Other English names: Marsh Cudweed, Wartwort, Mouse-ear. 
Native. Annual. Propagates by seeds. 
Time of bloom: July to September. 
Seed-time: September to November. 
Range: Newfoundland to the Saskatchewan, southward to the 
states bordering on the Great Lakes. 
Habitat: Low meadows, sides of streams and ditches, roadsides, 
and waste places. 
Although this plant loves moisture and is a 
common weed of flooded ground, it can adapt 
itself to very different conditions; the writer 
found the specimen from which this description 
is written thriving in the dry ground of a vacant 
‘city lot. (Fig. 310.) 
Stem two to six inches tall, with many 
branches, the lower ones spreading on the 
ground, making it much broader than its height. 
The plant is covered all over, stems and leaves, 
with close-pressed, white wool. Leaves sessile, 
spatulate to lance-shaped, narrow, pointed, and 
Fie. 310. — Low 
‘ 3 Cudweed (Gnapha- 
but one or two inches long. Flower-heads white, tiwn wuliginosum). 
very small, in close-packed terminal clusters sur- X ¢- 
