COMPOSITE FAMILY. Compositx. 



Climbing 



Hempweed or 



Boneset 



Mikania 



scandens 



White 



flesh pink 



July 



September 



Joe-Pye-Weed 



Eupatorium 

 purpureum 

 Magenta- 

 crimson 

 August- 

 September 



An attractive, twining vine generally 

 climbing over bushes on damp river banks. 

 The light green leaves triangular heart- 

 shaped, and the bristly, dull white or flesh- 

 colored flowers resembling those of bone- 

 set. 5-15 feet long. Mass., south, and 

 west to Ind. and Tex. Named for Prof. 

 Mikan of Germany. 



A familiar, tall plant with a stout stem 

 on which the roughish, pointed ovate, 

 toothed, light green leaves are grouped in 

 circles at intervals. The dense terminal 

 flower-clusters with many soft-bristly, {es- 

 thetic-toned dull magenta-crimson florets, 

 lighter or deeper, or sometimes dull white. 

 Frequented by the honeybee. 3-12 feet high. Common 

 everywhere on borders of swamps or low damp ground. 

 Named for Eupator Mithridates, and for a New England 

 Indian who used the plant in some concoction for the 

 cure of fevers. 



A similar, but small, rough-hairy species 

 with white flowers, the scales of which are 

 very long and white. The light green, veiny 

 leaves are stemless or nearly so. 1-3 feet 

 high. In sandy soil and pine barrens, 

 from Long Island, N. Y., to Fla. and 

 La. 



A hillside species with generally smooth, 

 opposite, ovate lance-shaped, horizontally 

 spreading leaves tapering to a sharp point. 

 The white flowers, with long, slender but 

 blunt scales, are in flat clusters. 2-6 feet 

 high. In woods or on wooded banks. 

 Mass., south, and west to 111. 



The common, familiar species whose 

 leaves have been used in a bitter tonic de- 

 coction or tea. Leaves very light green, 

 pointed, opposite, and so closely joined 

 that two appear as one perforated by the 

 plant-stem, which with the leaves is re- 

 markably wool-hairy. The very dull white 

 468 



White 

 Thoroughwort 



Eupatorium 

 album 

 White 

 August- 

 September 



Upland 

 Boneset 



Eupatorium 

 sessilifolium 

 White 

 August- 

 October 



Boneset or 

 Thoroughwort 

 Eupatorium 

 perfoliatum 

 Dull white 

 July- 

 September 



