HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



clusters. Stem, coarse, hairy, leafy to the top, i to 3 feet high. 

 Leaves, thin, oblong, the upper clasping the stem with heart- 

 shaped bases, entire; the lower toothed, narrowed downward. 

 Midrib prominent. May to August. 



Wet meadows along banks of rivers in the Eastern and 

 Southern States. Flower much like the commoner Robin's 

 Plantain, but having more rays, long and narrow. 



Salt Marsh Fleabane 



Pluchea camphorata. — Family, Composite. Color, pink. Flow- 

 ers, all tubular, many in a head, a few in the center without pistils 

 and with a 5-cleft corolla; the others pistillate, with a thread- 

 like corolla. No rays. Leaves, sessile, or with short petioles, 

 toothed, oblong, narrow, thick, rough. 2 to 3 feet high. August. 



A common, rather pretty flower found in brackish or salt 

 marshes along the coast. The small, rose-colored blossoms 

 grow in close, flat heads resembling the inflorescence of the 

 everlastings. Stem and leaves glandular. They give forth 

 a distinct odor of camphor. Massachusetts southward. 

 (See illustration, p. 297.) 



Coreopsis. Tickseed 

 Coreopsis rosea* — Family, Composite. Color of rays, rose; of 

 disk, yellow. Rays, 3-toothed. Heads, on short peduncles in 

 corymbose clusters. Leaves, long, narrow, entire, opposite. Stems, 

 leafy, from J to 2 feet high. July to September. 



Massachusetts to New Jersey and southward. A rare and 

 pleasant find is the rose-colored coreopsis, in grassy, shallow 

 swamps. 



Oyster Plant 



Tragopogon porrifolius. — Family, Composite. Color, dark crim- 

 son. Leaves, grass-like, clasping the stem. Heads, many-flowered, 

 large, solitary. Peduncles, somewhat thickened below the heads 

 of flowers. 



This plant may often be found growing wild along the 

 borders of gardens and farms, escaped from cultivation. Its 

 stem is stout, 2 or 3 feet high. Name means goat's beard, 

 probably suggested by the long, plumose bristles of the 

 pappus. 



