
SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae. 
S. occidentalis, Western Golden-rod, is smooth all over, with 
leafy stems, from three to five feet tall, toothless leaves, and 
flat-topped clusters of small, yellow, sweet-scented flowers. 
This grows in marshes and along the banks of streams, in 
California, Oregon, and Washington, blooming in summer 
and autumn. S. Califérnica, California Golden-rod, is 
from two to four feet high, with grayish-green, roughish 
leaves, the lower ones toothed, and small yellow flowers, 
forming dense pyramidal clusters, from four to thirteen 
inches long. This grows on dry plains and hillsides and in 
the mountains, throughout California and in Oregon, 
blooming in the autumn. It is called Orojo de Leabre 
by the Spanish-Californians. 
There are probably over a thousand different kinds of 
Senecio, very widely distributed. The name is from the 
Latin for ‘“‘old man,”’ in allusion to the long white hairs of 
the pappus, when “‘gone to seed.”” Our kinds have many 
common names, such as Groundsel, Ragwort, and Squaw- 
weed. 
-A conspicuous plant and quite hand- 
Ragwort 3 : 
a perpléxus SOME, though its flowers are rather untidy- 
var. dispar looking, for, like many other Senecios, 
Yellow the rays do not come out evenly. It is 
Spring, summer 
Utah, Idaho about two feet high, with a stout, hollow, 
. ridged stem, sparsely woolly, and dark 
green, thickish leaves, with shallow and uneven teeth and 
covered with sparse, fine, white woolly hairs, as if partially 
rubbed off. The flowers are over an inch across, with 
bright yellow rays, curling back in fading, an orange center, 
fading to brown, and the bracts of the involucre tipped with 
black. This grows in moist rich soil, in mountain valleys. 
. ' A handsome bush, about three feet high, 
Creek Senecio : 
Senecio Douglésii COVeTed with many flowers, on slender 
Yellow flower-stalks, sticking up out of a mass of 
Spring, summer, rather delicate foliage, which is often 
se RS covered with white cottony wool. The 
Southwest 2 
flowers are an inch and three-quarters 
across, with bright light yellow, rather untidy rays and 
yellow centers. This grows in dry stream beds and on 
warm slopes in the foothills. 
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