64 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



white. Leaves, many, near the root, smooth, and partly fleshy, 

 rather broad; those above, narrow, bract-like. 



Tall and coarse, not a shrub, but shrubby. It may reach 8 

 feet. The flowers grow in the axils of the upper leaves, and in a 

 raceme at the end of the branch or stem. They hang and nou. 

 The leaves have coarse, sharp teeth. 



58. Tall Sunflower 



Helidnihus giganteus. — Family, Composite. Color, pale 

 yellow, both rays and disk. Leaves, lance-shaped, large, rough 

 above and beneath. Time, August, September. 



Very tall, reaching 10 feet. A rough stem, and the narrow 

 leaves hairy near the base. The rays are numerous and long, of 

 a lemon color. A pretty sunflower, growing in swampy thickets 

 and beside streams. 



59. Coreopsis. Tickseed 



CoreSpsis rSsea. — Family, Composite. Color, of rays, rose- 

 color; of disk, yellow. Leaves, long, narrow, not toothed, oppo- 

 site. Time, August. 



A rare find in sandy swamps is the rose-colored coreopsis. 

 The rays are 3-toothed, about 8 in number. The heads are 

 small, on leafy stems, from -^ foot to 2 feet high. 



60. Tickseed Sunflower 



C. trichospirma has 3 to 7 divided leaves with short petioles, 

 coarsely -toothed leaflets, and flowers with short, inconspicu- 

 ous rays. This approaches bur-marigold. 



The golden coreopsis of old-fashioned gardens has yellow, 

 toothed rays, with dark red around the central disk. Leaves 

 narrow, on thin petioles. Other varieties are more double, 

 with variable spots or markings. They are imported from Texas 

 and Arkansas, and are especially fine in the South and West. 



