


SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae. 
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‘Shociert aden dan This is quite effective, with attractive 
Yellow flowers and foliage, growing among rocks 
Spring on hillsides and forming large clumps 
Arizona 
over a foot high. The stems are slender 
and often much bent, the leaves are dark green and thin 
in texture with toothed edges, rolled back, and the numer- 
ous flowers are an inch across, with bright yellow rays and 
deep yellow centers. This plant blossoms both as an 
annual and as a perennial. 
; A rather handsome plant, with a stout 
Ble Seng stem, about two feet tall; the upper leaves 
Senécio cordatus more or less downy and the root-leaves 
White rather thick and soft, covered with whitish 
sore hairs on the under side. The flower- 
Northwest 
heads are about three-quarters of an inch 
across, with a fuzzy, pale yellow center and white rays. 
This grows in open woods, at rather high altitudes. 
Sendcio Riddéllii A rather showy plant, from six inches 
Yellow to two feet tall, blossoming both as an 
Spring, winter annual and as a biennial, after which it 
pe dies. The whole plant is smooth and the 
foliage is green or bluish-green, rather delicate and pretty. 
The flowers are an inch to an inch and a half across and 
they begin to appear in winter when there is little else to 
brighten the desert mesas. This plant is abundant in 
valley lands, though it has a wide range. 
S. multilobatus A rather pretty plant, about a foot 
Yellow tall, with a few small leaves on the slightly 
Summer woolly stem, but most of them in a rosette 
Ariz., Utah, etc. 4+ the base. They are smooth, thickish 
and slightly stiff, about an inch and a half long, and neatly 
cut into small, toothed lobes. The few flowers are in a 
loose cluster at the top of the stem and have heads about 
three-quarters of an inch across, with pale yellow rays 
and brighter yellow centers. This grows at the Grand 
Canyon and on the dry plains of Utah and Colorado, at 
altitudes of about seven thousand feet. 
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