172 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



sonous roots. The stem is heavy and leafy, terminating in a 

 stiff, ahnost bristly, heavy, compound panicle of flowers. A 

 single flower is pedicelled, somewhat flat and open, small and 

 homely. 



A plant of rank, strong growth, foun'd 4000 feet high in the 

 Adirondacks, also in the New Jersey wet meadows. Range, over 

 the Atlantic States, south to Georgia, west to Minnesota. 2 to 

 8 feet high. 



