COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) 529 
Range: Ontario and Massachusetts to southern New Jersey; also 
on the Pacific Coast. An immigrant from Europe. 
Habitat: Gardens, lawns, fields, roadsides, and waste places. 
Root very long, thick, and fleshy; from its crown rise several 
smooth, slender stems, one to two feet tall, usually branched but 
sometimes simple, naked except fora 
few scale-like bracts. Leaves all 
basal, three to ten inches long, 
spreading flat on the ground in a 
large -tuft or rosette; they are 
broadly lance-shaped to obovate in 
outline, deeply cut and lobed,with 
terminal segment large and lateral 
ones turned backward (runcinate), 
covered on both sides with spread- 
ing hairs. Heads about an inch 
broad, yellow, with many slender 
rays, toothed at their tips, which are 
inclined to twist together as the 
blossom withers and -recloses. In- 
volucre nearly cylindric, its bracts 
imbricated in several series, smooth, 
appressed, pointed, the outer rows 
successively shorter. Achenes spin- 
dle-shaped, ten-ribbed, rough, con- 
tracting to a slender beak longer 
than the body; pappus a row of 
very plumose bristles. (Fig. 365.) ENA ie 
Means of control Fic. 365. — Gosmore (Hypoche- 
ris radicata). Xi. 
Where well established the Gos- 
more is nearly as persistent as the Dandelion. In cultivated 
ground the perennial roots are destroyed by the plow and 
subsequent tillage of crops. Pigs are very fond of the long, 
fleshy roots, and badly infested areas may be profitably 
cleaned out by turning in a few of those animals. In lawns 
the rosettes may be spudded off, the cut surfaces being treated 
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