HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



on stem; those below with short petioles, those above sessile, 

 few, and small. Heads of flowers small, 15 to 3o-flowered, on 

 long, slender stems, which are leafy and hairy, in loose panicles. 

 1 to 3 feet high. Pedicels, glandular. August to October. 



A common plant of graceful habit, in sterile soil, along 

 roadsides and in the edges of open woods from Massa- 

 chusetts to Ontario and westward. (See illustration, p. 241.) 



