Descriptive Flora 



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The root is used in medicine and should be dug while the plant 

 is in flower. The medicine is used in the treatment of liver 

 complaints. 



Serinea oppositifolia (Raf.) Kuntze. Dwarf Dandelion. 



(Apogon hwmilis Ell.) 



These are low, pale, branched plants, 2 to 12 inches high, 

 with milky sap and flowers that look like dwarf dandelions. 

 Leaves simple, 1 to 4 inches long, largely basal, those of the 

 stem opposite or alternate. Blades of the basal leaves spatulate 

 to linear, entire or irregularly and shallowly lobed. Blades of 

 the stem lanceolate to oblong. Flowers yellow, less than 1 inch 

 across, composite, consisting of numerous strap-shaped corollas 

 finely 5-toothed across the square tips, and solitary on slender 

 peduncles that are conspicuously glandular hairy just below the 

 involucre. Achenes very small, lacking the tuft of hairs common 

 to the true dandelions. Roots fibrous. March to May. In dry, 

 rocky soil. 



