SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae. — 
it on land he knows at once that it will be good for even 
dry farming, as the soil contains no salt or alkali. 
There are a good many kinds of Eriophyllum, common 
and very variable, woolly plants. 
Woolly Yellow 
Daisy 
Erioph3llum 
landtum 
Yellow 
Spring, summer 
Cal., Oreg., Wash. 
white down. 
This is a handsome kind, in favorable 
situations forming large conspicuous 
clumps, from one to two feet high, covered 
with bright golden flowers, each over an 
inch across. The leaves are dull green on 
the upper side, but the under side and the 
buds and stems are all covered with fine 
The leaves are variable in form, sometimes 
neither lobed nor toothed, and sometimes cut into narrow 
toothed divisions. This has a variety of forms and grows 
on hillsides. 
Eriophyllum 
Eriophyllum 
caespitosum var. 
integrifolium 
Yellow 
Summer 
Northwest, etc. 
Golden Yarrow 
Eriophsllum 
confertiflorum 
Yellow 
Summer 
California 
This forms low tufts of pale gray deowny 
foliage, contrasting well with the bright 
yellow flower-heads, each about an inch 
across. This grows around Yosemite and 
in other mountain places, as far east as 
Wyoming, and has a variety of forms. 
This has small flowers, but 1t forms such 
large clumps that the effect of the golden- 
yellow clusters is handsome and very 
conspicuous, on dry hills and mountains 
and along roadsides in summer. It is 
woody below, from one to two feet high, 
and the leaves are more or less woolly. The variety 
discoideum has no rays. 
There are many kinds of Anthemis, natives of Europe, 
Asia, and Africa. 
Mayweed, 
Chamomile, 
Dog Fennel 
Anthemis Ctula 
White 
Summer, autumn 
U..S., etc. 
taste. 
This little weed is common in waste 
places and fields and along roadsides, 
almost all over the world. It is a branch- 
ing annual, from one to two feet tall, with 
feathery light green foliage, cut into many 
long, narrow divisions, almost smooth, 
with a disagreeable smell and strong acrid 
The many daisy-like flowers have heads about an 
inch across, with from ten to eighteen white rays and 
convex yellow centers. There is a picture of this plant in 
Mathews’ Field Book. 
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