YELLOW GROUP 



hilly or wooded places. Very pretty, and keeping company 

 with small ferns. Maine to Minnesota and southward, in 

 dry soil. 



Cynthia 



K. am.plexica.ulis. — Color, yellow. Leaves, entire, mostly from 

 the root, on winged petioles, toothed, wavy-margined. Stem- 

 leaves clasping, usually but one, above which the stem branches, 

 i or 2 feet high. Flowers, deep yellow, in rather small heads. May 

 to October. 



An annual, common, making patches of bright color in 

 low meadows of New Jersey and wherever it has a foothold. 

 Massachusetts to Georgia and westward to Kentucky. In 

 mountains of Virginia 4,000 feet high. 



Hawkbit. Fall Dandelion 

 Leontodon autumnalis ("a lion and a tooth," from the toothed 

 leaves). — Family, Composite. Color, yellow. Flowers, all with 

 strap-shaped corollas in flat heads, smaller than the common 

 dandelion. They grow singly on scapes, from 3 to 12 inches 

 high, on peduncles which are thickened just under the flower. 

 Occasionally the scape branches, and a second flower appears. 

 Minute scales on the flower scape. Leaves, blunt, toothed, or 

 deeply cut, all from the root, clustered. Involucre slightly downy. 

 Pappus a row of tawny bristles. Late May to November. 



Fields and roadsides, dry soil. Common, especially north- 

 ward. Smaller and more delicate than the common dan- 

 delion. (See illustration, p. 238.) 



Goat's Beard 



Tragopogon pratensis. — Family, Composite. Color, yellow. 

 Leaves, clasping at base, tapering to a very long, sharp point, 

 sometimes 10 inches long. Stem, 2 or 3 feet high. Peduncles 

 slightly thickened, bearing a broad, flat head of ray and disk 

 flowers, all tubular. Pappus of many long, plume-like bristles. 



Fields and waste places from New Jersey northward. 

 Succulent herbs with strong tap-roots, perennials or bien- 

 nials, the flowers opening in the morning, closing at noon. 



Dandelion 



Taraxacum officinale Family, Composite. Color, yellow. 



Leaves, clustered at the root, variously cut and coarsely toothed. 

 April to September. 



This is one of the weeds that we love for its bright, golden 

 face, and because it is one of our first flowers to awake from 



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