YELLOW OR YELLOWISH FLOWERS 
GROUP X 
Leaves mostly from the root only, simple. Flowers composite. 
Coltsfoot {Tussilago Farfara). Composite family. April 
to June. 
A perennial whose blossoms are gone when the leaves appear. 
The light-yellow flowers, solitary at the end of stout, scaly 
stems (rising from horizontal root-stalks with bracted runners), 
resemble dandelions, with sterile but perfect disk-flowers and 
pistillate ray-flowers. Leaves rounded, long-stalked, woolly 
underneath, with pointed lobes and teeth. Wet places. The 
plant is named from Uissis, a cough. 
Fall Dandelion ( Leontodon autumnalis) . Composite family. 
June to November. 
Dandelions with small heads on slender stalks, sometimes two 
feet high., forking at the top, hence once called "Branchy" Dan- 
delion (Culpepper, 165 1). Leaves deeply toothed or cut. 
Common everywhere. 
Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale). Composite family. 
All the year. 
The common dandelion of the lawn, a perennial, with strap- 
shaped " perfect " florets, of which Lowell wrote: 
" My childhood's earliest thoughts are linked with thee." 
The South Wind, it seems, was enamoured of this slender 
maid with yellow locks, but he was so slow in his approach 
that when he arrived they had turned to white and were so 
lightly poised that when he sighed they blew away (Skinner). 
Those who see beauty in the familiar recognize the charm of 
these bright yellow blossoms scattered- over the lawn in the 
spring. Red-seeded Dandelion (Taraxacum erythrospermum) 
has a smaller flower, and its leaves are deeply cut into very 
narrow divisions. 
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