548 COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) 
labor of hand-pulling is not too great a price to pay in order to save 
clean ground from being fouled witha growth so pernicious. 
FALSE DANDELION 
Pyrrhopdppus carolinidnus, DC. 
*(Sittlias carolinidna, Raf.) 
Native. Annual or biennial. 
Time of bloom: April to July. 
Seed-time: May to August. 
Propagates by seeds. 
Range: Delaware to Missouri, southward to Florida, Louisiana, and 
Texas. ; 
Habitat: Dry soil; 
Fic, 380.— False Dandelion (Pyr- 
rhopappus carolinianus) : 
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fields, pastures, roadsides, and waste places. 
Very like a Dandelion in its 
appearance but for its branched 
and leafy stems; these. are one 
to nearly three feet tall, slender, 
and smooth. Basal leaves oblong 
to lance-shaped, three to eight 
inches long, coarsely toothed and 
lobed, sometimes pinnatifid, nar- 
rowing to margined petioles; stem 
leaves more slender, acute, en- 
tire, sessile or partly clasping. 
Heads solitary at summit of stem 
and branches, nearly two inches 
broad, with many deep yellow 
rays; involucre slightly hairy, its 
outer bracts spreading, awl-like, 
and short, subtending the linear, 
erect, and slightly united inner 
row. Achenes reddish brown, 
oblong, five-ribbed, narrowed to 
a thread-like beak, with a showy, 
copious pappus of soft rust-red 
hairs, surrounded at its base by 
a ring of white down. (Fig. 
380.) 
