Descriptive Flora 



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Gaillardia lanceolate Michx. Red Gaillardia. Red Firewheel. 



Similar to Gaillardia pulchella but both disk and rays are 

 a rich dark red that often causes them to be mistaken for red 

 poppies at a distance. In the sandy region to the south and east. 

 The plants as a whole are not as big and bushy, and flowers gen- 

 erally smaller. Named for Gaillard de Marentonneau, a French 

 botanist. 



Gaillardia swavis (A. Gray) Britton & Rusby. 



Fragrant Gaillardia. Globe Flower. Pin-cushion Daisy. 



Plants with a large rosette of basal leaves and 1 to several 

 long, grooved, naked stems (1 to 2 feet tall) rising out of the 

 tuft of leaves and bearing at each tip a fragrant, brown-purple 

 or reddish-brown, globular head about 1 hich in diameter and 

 usually without any ray flowers. Leaves V/2 to 4 inches long, 

 segmented along the margins. Occasionally the flowers heads 

 have a fringe of 8 to 12 small, reddish-brown or orange rays. 

 Commonly in small patches along roads and in pastures. March 

 to July. In the sandy soil to the south the plant is dwarfed,, 

 ranging from 6 to 12 inches in height. 



TJiymopJtylla tenuiloba (DC.) Small. Tiny Tim. 



A low, leafy, bushy plant, 4 to 12 inches high with small 

 composite flowers tipping long slender naked stalks. Leaves 

 simple, alternate or opposite. Blades stiff, dark green, dotted 

 with glands and divided into 7 to 11 narrow, bristle-tipped seg- 

 ments. Flowers composite, less than 1 inch across, yellow with 

 large deeper yellow or brownish convex centers. Rays small, 

 oblong, yellow, 11 to 19. Usually growing in very dry ground 

 along the roadside, often so close that it gets into the wagon 

 tracks. The plants have a peculiar but not unpleasant odor. 



Achillea millefolium L. Yarrow Milfoil. Thousand Seal. 



Feathery-leaved, strong-scented plants with small white 

 flowers gathered into one or more compact, flat-topped, stiff- 

 branched terminal clusters. Basal leaves deep green, deeply cut 



