HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



Early Golden-rod. Plume Golden-rod 

 S. juncea. — This species may be seen from June to November. 

 It may easily be known by the fringed petioles of the lowest, 

 sharply toothed leaves. Upper leaves narrow, entire, sessile. 

 Stem, i\ to 4 feet high, commonly about 2 feet. Flowers have 

 small rays, and are arranged in close, heavy, drooping, corymb- 

 like panicles upon the upper sides of the branchlets. 



A common form, in dry fields from far north, Hudson 

 Bay to North Carolina. 



S. serotina. — Stem, tall, thick, rough, from 2 to 7 feet high. 

 Leaves, tapering, very acute, thin, sharply toothed, smooth 

 above and beneath. Flowers, in a large, spreading, handsome 

 panicle. July to September. 



In rich or poor soil, thickets, copses, fields, etc. 



Var. gigantea is 5 to 8 feet high. A large, flowing panicle of 

 bright-yellow flowers caps the stout, rough stem. 



Abundant along fences, in fields and waste places. 



Bog Golden-rod 



5. uliginbsa. — Stem, unbranched, smooth below the flower- 

 panicle, 2 to 4 feet high. Leaves, lance-shaped or oblong, much 

 pointed, finely toothed, rough on the margins, the lower 4 to 9 

 inches long, with winged petioles. Flowers, small, much crowded 

 in a long, terminal panicle. July to September. 



Bogs, swamps, wet shores of streams from Newfound- 

 land to New Jersey and Pennsylvania, in mountains to 

 North Carolina. 



S, patula. — Stems, smooth, sharply 4-angled, often 7 feet high. 

 Leaves, linear, smooth beneath, very rough above. This un- 

 usual roughness of the upper surfaces of the leaves will identify 

 the species. Leaves pinnately veined, those below very large, 

 3 to 16 inches, finely toothed. Upper ones entire, small, lance- 

 shaped. Flowers, numerous, on separate and spreading branches 

 which have leafy bracts. 



In swamps, Maine to Minnesota south to Georgia and 

 Texas. In mountains 5,000 feet high in North Carolina. 



5, ElUottii. — Stem, smooth, stout, 3 to 6 feet high, simple as 

 far as the flowers begin, then, perhaps, branched. Leaves, not 

 much toothed, oblong or lance-shaped, obtuse at base, without 



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