YELLOW GROUP 



alternate, oblong or lance-shaped, generally acute at apex, nar- 

 rowed and sessile at base. Those at base sometimes have short 

 petioles. June to August. 



A variable species, from i to 3 feet tall, with delicate, 

 lemon-colored, large flowers, slightly fragrant, in loose or 

 corymbic clusters. The flowers open by day and close at 

 night. In dry fields and sandy soil from New England to 

 Georgia and westward. 



0, pumila is a smaller species, with pods less winged, and with 

 entire, blunt-pointed leaves, narrow at the base. 1 to 2 feet high. 

 Flowers, in a loose, leafy spike. June to August. 



The evening primroses of the Eastern States are all yellow. 

 Two white or rose-colored species are found west of Kentucky 

 and Missouri. Dry fields. From northern New England to 

 Georgia and westward. 



Taemdia integerrima. — Family, Parsley. Color, yellow. Flow- 

 ers, in umbels on slender peduncles, the pods becoming long- 

 stalked. Few or no involucral bracts underneath. Leaves, twice 

 or thrice compound, rather large, the petioles of those above 

 swollen at base. Leaflets, ovate or narrow, tipped with a small 

 bristle at apex. Smooth plants, 1 to 3 feet high. 



In dry, rocky woods, sandy soil, from New England to 

 North Carolina and westward. 



Golden Meadow Parsnip 



Thdspium aureum, — Family, Parsley. Color, deep yellow. 

 Flowers, in compound umbels, large and handsome. The fruit, 

 maturing in August or September, is pedicelled, angled, with styles 

 present. Leaves, those from the root heart-shaped, toothed; 

 those on the stem 3 -divided, the leaflets roundish or ovate, ser- 

 rate. Stem, smooth and stout. Summer. 



Open woods and thickets in Middle and Southern States. 

 Meadow Parsnip 



T. barbinbde. — Color, pale yellow. Leaves, twice or thrice com- 

 pound, alternate; those near the base less divided than those 

 higher up on the stem. Leaflets, long, narrow, somewhat ovate, 

 coarsely toothed. Tall, 2 to 4 feet high, with umbels of yellow 

 flowers and rather large seeds. Soft, fine hairs grow along the 

 joints of the stem and among the flowers. May and June. 



River-banks and along streams from New York to Minne- 

 sota and southward. 



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