SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae. 
A handsome kind, forming a clump from 
Sunflower : : 
Helianthus two to four feet high, with several leafy, 
fascicularis rough stems and harsh, rather shiny leaves. 
Yellow The fine flowers measure four inches 
Spring 
across, with bright yellow rays, deeper 
yellow centers, and bronze, rough, rather 
resinous involucres. This is common around Reno and 
grows in dry mountain valleys as far east as Colorado. 
A striking plant, quite handsome, with 
Nev., Ariz., etc. 
Hairy Golden 
ree a hairy, pale, leafy stem, from six inches 
Chrysépsis villosa to two feet tall, and gray-green, rather 
Yellow velvety leaves, generally toothless. The 
Summer 
flowers are an inch or more across, with 
bright golden-yellow rays and centers of 
the same shade, growing singly, or in a more or less crowded 
cluster at the top of the stalk. This is common in open 
ground and dry hills, up to an altitude of ten thousand 
feet, as far east as Alabama, and there are many varieties. 
The Greek name means “‘golden aspect.” 
A curious and pretty little desert plant, 
that looks as if it were trying to protect 
Arizona, etc. 
Velvet-rosette 
Psathyrotes Gnnua 
Yellow itself from cold rather than heat, as its 
Spring pretty foliage and stems seem all made of 
Southwest 
silvery, gray velvet, forming a symmetrical 
rosette, dotted with the small, rayless, yellow flower- 
heads, like fuzzy buttons. The rosette is decorative in 
form, about a foot across, spreading flat and close to the 
ground, and is conspicuous on the bare sand of the desert. 
Only one of the branches is given in the picture. 
acter Deins, This is a charming and quaint little 
Ground Daisy plant, with close, downy rosettes of small, 
Townséndia gray-green leaves and two or three, pretty, 
exscapa daisy-like flowers, all crowded together 
Pink 
Serine close to the ground. The flowers are over 
Ariz., New Mex. an inch across, with numerous, pale-pink 
to Saskatchewan rays, deeper pink on the under side, and a 
bright yellow center, and when they bloom in early spring, 
on bare rocky soil, they are exceedingly attractive. 
There are a great many kinds of Erigeron, widely dis- 
tributed, most abundant in the New World, easily con- 
fused with Asters, but usually with numerous and finer 
rays, so that the effect is more delicate. 
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