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Keerlia bellidifolia Gray & Engelm. 



Very common on moist, wooded hillsides. A straggling slender- 

 stemmed plant with very small, blue heads. 



Texas. 



Leptilon canadense Britton. (Erigeron canadensis L.) Horseweed. 

 Canada Fleabane. 



Common along roadsides. Much branched, with many very small, 

 white heads. 



Widely distributed in North America, South America and Europe. 



Solidago canadensis L. Goldenrod. 

 In ravines, Waller Creek, etc. 

 Widely distributed in eastern North America. 



Solidago nemoralis Ait. Goldenrod. 

 Dry postoak uplands. 

 Central and southern states. 



Xanthisma texanum DC. 



Flood plain of the river. A prairie plant. 

 Texas. 



Tribe INULEAE 



Filago nivea Small. Indian Tobacco. 



Common in dry, waste ground. Campus. A small, much- 

 branched plant with white-woolly leaves and white-woolly heads of 

 very small flowers. The flowers are so buried in the wool as to be 

 almost indistinguishable. 



Gulf states to California. 



Filago prolifera Britton. (Evax prolifera Nutt.) Indian Tobacco. 

 Similar to the preceding and in similar situations. 

 Central states. 



Gnaphalium purpureum L. Cudweed. Everlasting. 



Erect, white-woolly herbs several inches to more than a foot high. 

 Widely distributed in the south from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 



Pluchea purpurascens DC. Marsh Fleabane. 

 Flood plain of Barton Creek. 

 Gulf states and tropical America. 



