HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



Common in cultivated or waste ground from Newfoundland 

 to Virginia and westward to Michigan and Minnesota. 



Golden Ragwort 



5. aureus* — Color, yellow. Leaves on stem, sessile, clasping, 

 lyre-shaped, lance-shaped, and deeply cut. The root-leaves have 

 long petioles, round or heart-shaped, conspicuously toothed. May 

 and June. 



A common plant with perennial root, blossoming earlier 

 than many of the composites. It grows from i to 3 feet high, 

 stem smooth. The heads of yellow flowers are small, ar- 

 ranged in leafless clusters. Seeds with fluffy, hoary pappus. 

 In swamps and wet meadows, or along roadsides, also in 

 deep woods it is conspicuously bright, bringing out its 

 golden heads of blossoms very early. W T hen gone to seed it 

 has a cottony look, like that of small thistles. 



Yellow Thistle 



Cirsium spinosissimum. — Family, Composite. Color, yellow, 

 sometimes purple. This is a very spiny and prickly species. 

 Leaves, stem, and the involucre around the heads of flowers are 

 all alike armed with vicious tiny spears which protect it from 

 cattle and insure its continuation upon lands where it is not 

 especially desired. 1 to 3 feet high. June to August. 



Found in all the Atlantic States as far south as Virginia, 

 in sandy soil. 



Nipple-wort 



La.psa.na. communis. — Family, Composite. Color, yellow. Leaves, 

 ovate or lyre-shaped, toothed. Heads, 8 to 12-flowered with 8 

 long bracts making a cylindrical cup. No pappus. A slender, 

 branching plant, with small, loosely panicled heads of flowers. 

 June to September. 



Waste places along roadsides from Quebec to Pennsyl- 

 vania and westward to Michigan. 1 to 3^ feet high. 



Dwarf Dandelion 



Krigia <virgmtca. — Family, Composite. Color, yellow. Leaves, 

 mostly from the root, somewhat toothed, the earlier roundish, 

 the later deeply cut and toothed. Flower-stalks at first naked, 

 becoming, later, leafy. Like its larger prototype, the common 

 dandelion, the bright- yellow heads of flowers are followed by 

 hoary bunches of pappus, consisting of both scales and bristles. 

 April to August. 



From 1 to 10 inches high, growing in shade, on rocks, in 



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