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WILD FLOWERS OF CALIFORNIA 



796. English Daisy 



797. 



Bellis perennis 



Leucelene ericoides 



Introduced in gardens and 

 escaped in several places. 

 Used in lawns for its flor- 

 al effect but not desirable. 

 From Europe. 



A low perennial with leafy 

 stems and woody base. 

 Heads small and solitary. 

 Rays white or reddish ; 

 disk flowers yellow or 

 reddish. Pappus a single 

 series of scabrous white 

 bristles. 



798. 



Psilactis Coulteri 



799. 



Hazardia sqnarrosa 



800. 



Isocoma venata and var. 



801. 



Haplopappus 



802. 



803. 



Stenotus linearifoli 



Townsendia scapigcra 



A leafy-stemmed desert an- 

 nual, with rather small 

 heads, herbage rough and 

 glandular. Rays lavendar, 

 disk flowers yellow, with 

 20 to 40 unequal pappus 

 bristles. Mohave Desert 

 region. 



Herbage white, tomentose 

 or glabrous, shrubby or 

 partially so. Heads 20-40 

 flowered, yellow, chang- 

 ing to brownish-purple. 

 Pappus reddish ; 3 species. 

 Southern California and 

 islands off the coast. 



Woody with rigid stems 

 and thickish, closely ses- 

 sile leaves not resinous. 

 Achenes ribbed and silky. 

 Pappus of numerous 

 bristles variable in length. 

 A variable species. Sub- 

 saline plains. Interior 

 valley southward. 



Annuals or perennials or 

 low shrubs. Yellow rays. 

 Pappus of numerous, un- 

 equal, dull-white or red- 

 dish bristles. Five species. 

 Sierras and southern 

 California. 



A shrubby evergreen plant, 

 resinous, flowers yellow. 

 Pappus of permanently 

 white slender bristles. 

 Mt. Diablo Range and 

 south to Mexico. Sierras. 



A dwarf biennial, with lin- 

 ear spatulate leaves and 

 large heads of whitish or 

 rose-colored flowers. Re- 

 sembles Aster. Rare. Ft. 

 Bidwell, Modoc countv. 



