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Descriptive Flora 



CICHORIACEAE. Chicory Family. In Small's Flom. 



Sitilias multicaulis (DC.) Greene. False Dandelion. 



"Pata de Leon". 



Plants 4 to 16 inches tall, with milky juice, and lemon- 

 yellow flowers about 2 inches across, strongly resembling the com- 

 mon dandelion of northern fields and lawns. Leaves largely 

 basal, simple, 2 to 6 inches long, the margins wavy or cut into 

 narrow or broad lobes. Flowers several, solitary on naked 

 peduncles, and consisting entirely of yellow, strap-shaped corollas 

 that are finely 5-toothed at the square tips. Inclosing the flower 

 is a circle of long green bracts with peculiar, small, raised, black- 

 tipped triangular appendages at their tips. Lower and second 

 circle of bracts few, short, unequal in length. Fruit fluffy, pale 

 grey balls of light, feathery plumes. Similar to the "Puff Ball" 

 of the common dandelion. Achenes reddish, wrinkled, slender, 

 with a tuft of brownish hairs attached to the top. March, April 

 and May. In dry soil. Flowers close with the hot sun. 



Sitilias grandiflora (Nutt.) Greene. False Dandelion. 



Similar to the above species but stems do not branch and 

 flowers are solitary on the long simple naked stems. (Never on 

 branching stems). Not as common as Sitilias multicaulis. March 

 to July. Widespread. 



Pinaropappus roseus Less. White Dandelion. 



Plants with milky sap, largely basal leaves and large white 

 or purplish flowers similar to a common dandelion in structure 

 and terminating long slender almost naked stems. Basal leaves 

 simple, 2 to 4 inches long, the margins shallowly segmented into 

 triangular lobes or entire. Stem leaves few, linear, entire, 

 sparingly lobed. Flowers composite, solitary, white or purplish, 

 1 to 2 inches across, terminating almost naked stalks 6 to 18 

 inches long. Corollas all strapshaped, finely toothed and square 

 at their tips. Each tiny corolla is rolled length wise into a tiny 

 hollow tube which unfolds gradually and becomes strapshaped, 



