200 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



Common in waste lots around New York and Brooklyn, and 

 along roadsides everywhere from New England to Iowa. The 

 root is used for the adulteration of coffee. 



55. Golden Ragwort. Squaw-weed. (See page 88) 



SenScio aureus (senex, old man, from the resemblance 

 of the white pappus to gray hair). — Family, Composite. 

 Color, yellow. Leaves on stem, sessile or clasping, lyre- 

 shaped, lance-shaped, and deeply cut. The root-leaves have 

 long petioles, and are round or heart-shaped. Time, May, 

 June. 



A common plant with perennial root, blossoming earlier 

 than many of the composites. It grows from 2 to 3 feet high, 

 and is woolly when young. The heads of yellow flowers are 

 small, arranged in leafless clusters. Seeds with fluffy, hoary 

 pappus. 



56. Hawkbit. Fall Dandelion 



Leontodon autumnalis (a lion and tooth, from the toothed 

 leaves). — Family, Composite. Color, yellow. Leaves, blunt, 

 toothed or cut, from the root. Minute scales on the flower 

 scapes. Time, summer and fall. 



Flowers all with strap-shaped corollas in flat heads, smaller 

 than the common dandelion. They grow singly on scapes, 

 from 3 inches to a foot tall, on peduncles, thickened under 

 the flower. Occasionally the scape is branched and another 

 flower appears. 



A late and pretty copy of the spring dandelion found through- 

 out New England. The seeds bear brown pappus in two rows. 



57. Burdock 



Arctium Lappa. — Family, Composite. Color, crimson. 

 Leaves, ovate or round, some with heart-shaped bases. Time, 

 summer and early fall. 



