HARPERS GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



leaflets cut into 3 to 7 divisions; the upper irregularly 3 to 

 5-parted. This cone-flower of the woods and thickets may be 

 known from the commoner weed by its yellow disk, the other 

 having a brown disk. Stem, smooth and tall, 2 to 7 feet. The 

 flowers are on long peduncles, and their long, deep-yellow rays 

 are drooping. Low, damp thickets and open woods. July to 

 September. 



From Quebec to Florida and west to New Mexico. 



Gray-headed Cone-flower 

 Lepachys pinnata. — Family, Composite. Color of rays, light 

 yellow; of disk, gray. Single heads of flowers large, showy, with 

 drooping rays 1 to 2 inches long. The columnar disk is very 

 prominent, broad, and large. Leaves, alternate, pinnately divided, 

 mostly low down on the stem, 3 to 7 leaflets. Stem, naked above, 

 grooved, about 4 feet high, stout, the whole plant covered with 

 a grayish down. June and July. 



Dry fields and edges of woods, from western Xew York 

 to 1 Minnesota and southward. The difference between this 

 species and the two preceding cone-flowers is unmistakable. 

 All the long rays of the flower droop away down, exposing 

 the whole extent of the broad cone. 



Narrow-leaved Sunflower 



Helianthus angustifolius. — Family, Composite. Color of rays, 

 bright yellow; disk, a purplish brown. Leaves, long, linear, en- 

 tire, sessile, alternate on the stem above, opposite below, their 

 edges rolled backward, noticeably when dry. A perennial grow- 

 ing from slender rootstocks. Heads of flowers in loose, irregular 

 corymbs, on peduncles of varying lengths near the ends of 

 branches. 2 to 7 feet high. Flowers, 2 to 3 inches across. Au- 

 gust to October. 



In swamps or wet grounds from Long Island (where it is 

 common), southern Xew York, to Florida and westward. 

 Near the coast. (See illustration, p. 227.) 



Tall Sunflower. Wild Sunflower 



H. giganthss. — Color of both rays and disk, pale lemon yellow. 

 A tall species reaching 12 feet in height. Usually about 4 feet. 

 Common in leafy and shady, swampy roadsides and thickets from 

 Maine to Florida. Stem, rough and of a purplish color. Leaves, 

 undivided, lance-shaped, sessile, or a few with short petioles, 

 mostly alternate, numerous, dark green. August to October. 

 (See illustration, p. 229.) 



228 



