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WILD FLOWERS OF CALIFORNIA 



823. 

 824. 

 825. 

 826. 

 827. 

 828. 

 829. 

 830. 

 831. 

 832. Pearly Everlasting 



Antennaria dimorpha 

 Antennaria media 

 Antennaria alpina 

 Antennaria speciosa 

 Antennaria luzuloides 

 Antennaria microcephala 

 Antennaria Geyeri 

 Antennaria marginata 

 Antennaria dioica 

 Anaphalis margaritacea 



Low woolly perennials with 

 crowded tufts of leaves 

 at the base, some form- 

 ing a sod. Heads dioeci- 

 ous. Unattractive but met 

 with quite frequently in 

 the mountains, mainly in 

 the Sierras from north to 

 south. 



Perennial with leaves green above and woolly beneath. Flowers yellow, 

 dioecious. Bracts of the involucre pearly white and spreading with age. Coast 

 Ranges and Sierras. 

 832a. Cudweed; Ever- Gnaphalium 



lasting 



Woolly herbs with sessile and commonly decurrent leaves. Heads white, yel- 

 lowish or rose-tinted, disposed in close or open clusters. Not dioecious. 



833. Purple Cudweed Gnaphalium purpureum 



834. Lowland Cudweed Gnaphalium palustre 



Gnaphalium decurrens 



var. 

 Gnaphalium ramosissi- 



mum 

 Gnaphalium microcepha- 



lum 

 Gnaphalium chilense and 



var. 

 Gnaphalium bicolor 



Distributed throughout the State, Coast Ranges and Sierras alike, except in 

 the trulv desert areas. 



835. California Everlast- 



ing 



836. Pink Everlasting 



837. Small-headed Ever- 



lasting 



838. Cotton-Batting Plant 



839. 



TRIBE 4. RAGWEED TRIBE AMBROSIEAE 



Many of the plants in this tribe differ materially in general aspect and in 

 structure from what is commonly considered typical of the family, Compositae, 

 as a whole. 



840. Poverty Weed; Iva axillaris 



Death Weed 



A common perennial plant from north to south in the State, usually frequent- 

 ing gravelly or saline soils. Difficult to eradicate and hence complaints come to us 

 concerning it from the farmers. Heads solitary, nodding and disposed in terminal 

 spike-like clusters. Ill-smelling, unattractive, disliked by stock. Doves like seeds. 



841. 

 842. 



Iva Hayesiana 

 Oxvtenia acerosa 



843. Bug- Seed 



Dicoria canescens 



Saline soil, San Diego south. 



Shrubby perennial with erect 

 branches, leafless and 

 rush-like or with conspic- 

 uous leaves. Alkali plains, 

 southeastern California. 

 Flowers odor of lilacs ac- 

 cording to Miss East- 

 wood. 



Annual, diffusely branches 

 from the base and from 1 

 to several feet in height. 

 Herbage with harsh 

 spreading hairs. Achenes 

 resemble bugs. Imperial 

 Valley and Mohave Des- 

 ert in dry alkaline, drift- 

 ing sandy areas. 



