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Descriptive Flora 



the stems. Leaves simple, alternate. Blades entire, clasping the 

 stem and continuing down the stem fully half the length of the 

 blade. Flowers composite, less than y 2 inch across, the disk 

 mounded or globular. Rays 8, small, 3-lobed, yellow, wedge- 

 shaped, folded against the stems. Moist soil, depressions in flat 

 land, frequently banks of small streams. Spring and summer. 

 Petals droop like Eatibida but are smaller and disk is mounded. 



Helenium elegans DC. Sneezeweed. 



Similar to Helenium microcepJialum but ray petals are 

 larger (5-7 mm.) long, disk smaller (4-5 mm.), pappus scales 

 shorter than the width of the achene, and rays yellow or often 

 brown or reddish at the base. 



Amblyolepis setigera DC. Honey Daisy. 



Pale bluish-green hairy plants, 8 to 18" tall and bearing 

 large, yellow, fragrant composite flowers (about IV2" across). 

 Leaves simple, alternate. Blades entire, oblong or ovate to 

 lanceolate, clasping the stem at base, conspicuously milky veined. 

 Ray flowers usually 8, 3 to 4-lobed. Achenes broadened upward, 

 and crowned by short, blunt scales. April and May. Abundant 

 in patches along railroad tracks, roads and fields. 



Gaillardia pulchella Foug. Firewheel. Gaillardia: 



Indian Sunburst. 



Showy branched plants having large gaudy composite 

 flowers, each with a large reddish-brown center and about 8 to 

 12, 3-toothed ray flowers variously colored yellow or orange with 

 red base or sometimes red, or red with yellow tips. Leaves 

 simple, alternate. Blades spatulate to oblong or linear, entire or 

 coarsely and sparingly toothed or lobed, sessile. Flowers solitary, 

 more than 1 inch across, terminating long, naked stems. April 

 to July. Common everywhere, growing singly or in patches. The 

 firewheel rivals the Bluebonnet in popularity. 



