YELLOW GROUP 



Leaves, much cut into fine-toothed segments or leaflets, on winged 

 petioles which are also cut-toothed. 



An herb formerly cultivated for its medicinal qualities. 

 It has escaped from gardens and become a weed in some 

 places. Plant from 3 to 4 feet high, usually lower, with a 

 strong, pungent scent. 



Wormwood 



Artemisia. Absinthium. — Family, Composite. Color, yellow. 

 Heads of flowers roundish, in panicles. Leaves, twice or thrice- 

 divided into narrow lobes, 2 to 5 inches long, long-petioled below, 

 the upper ones sessile or with short petioles. July to September. 



A somewhat shrubby plant, escaped from old gardens, 

 where it is still cultivated for its supposed remedial virtues. 

 Southernwood is a member of this genus, a favorite plant in 

 gardens on account of its sweet-scented, finely cut leaves, 

 wilting as soon as plucked. 



The leaves and flowers of this plant form the principal 

 ingredients of the famous drink absinthe, so much used in 

 France. Mixed with other plants, they are pounded, then 

 macerated with alcohol, allowed to stand for eight days, then 

 distilled. 



Coltsfoot 



Tussilkgo Farfara. — Family, Composite. Color, yellow. Disk 

 flowers, tubular, rays narrow, drooping. Leaves, of 2 sorts, the 

 earlier, accompanying the flower, merely scales on the scapes. 

 Later, these are followed by roundish, heart-shaped, lobed, 

 toothed leaves, woolly underneath, smooth and green above. 

 From a perennial rootstock. April to June. 



A curious, "thoroughly wild" plant, with many ugly 

 names, as horsehoof , colt - herb, and clay - weed. In wet 

 places, as brooks and springs along roadsides. From Maine 

 and Massachusetts west to Minnesota. 



Common Groundsel 

 Senecio vulgaris (" senex," old man, from the resemblance of 

 the white pappus to gray hair). — Family, Composite. Color, 

 yellow. Leaves, narrow, pinnatifid, toothed, 2 to 6 inches long, 

 the upper clasping the stem or sessile; lower on short, thick 

 petioles. Several small heads of flowers in corymbs, without 

 rays, with only central, tubular, yellow flowers. 



Coarse, hairy herbs with hollow stems 6 to 15 inches high, 

 branched. Bracts of the involucre tipped with black. 



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