YELLOW OR YELLOWISH FLOWERS 
Yellow-eyed Grass (Xyris flexuosa) . Yellow-eyed Grass 
family. July, August. 
An upright perennial, about a foot high, with delicate flower- 
less stem bearing at the top a small egg-shaped head (one-fourth 
to one-third inch high) of bracts from which rise the little 
flowers. The flowers have three spreading yellow petals with 
claws, three stamens. The leaves are linear, twisted. The root 
is bulbous. Found in bogs. 
GROUP XII 
Leaves alternate, simple. Flowers composite. 
The Golden-rods are found on page 50 et seq. 
Rough Hawkweed (Hierdcium scahrum). Composite 
family. July to September. 
A perennial with rough, hairy, leafy stem one to three feet 
high. The flower-heads, resembling very smaU dandelions, 
with perfect, strap-shaped florets, are borne on stout and stiffly 
spreading branches at the top of the somewhat zigzag stem. 
Leaves elliptic to inversely egg-shaped, without teeth, hairy, 
the lowest with stalks. Very common in dry woods. Hieracium 
is from the Greek word meaning hawk; scabrum means 
rough. 
Canada Hawkweed {Hierdcium canadense). Composite 
family. July to September. 
An upright perennial with unbranched stem, bearing many 
lance-shaped leaves, and at the top a loose cluster of flowers 
resembling small dandelions (with perfect, strap-shaped florets) 
on separate stalks. The leaves, not over three inches by one 
inch, have practically no stalks and sometimes clasp the stem ; 
they are sparingly and sharply toothed. Open woods, not quite 
so common as Rough Hawkweed. 
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