YELLOW AND YELLOWISH FLOWERS 
Green-headed Cone-flower (Rudbeckia laciniata). Com- 
posite family. July to September. 
A perennial, tall and branched. The large flower-heads have 
a greenish disk, and yellow rays one and one-half inches long, 
notched, drooping. The lower leaves, on long stalks, are irregu- 
larly parted, with lobes again irregularly cut; the upper are 
smaller and sometimes simple. Thickets. Western Quebec, 
West and South. 
Panicled Hawkweed ( Hieracium paniculatum) . Composite 
family. July to September. 
A perennial with slender branching stem, under three feet high. 
The flower-heads are like minute dandelions. There is a single 
row of long linear bracts in the involucre, with other short ones. 
The leaves are lance-shaped, somewhat toothed. Open woods. 
Golden Aster (Chrysopsis mariana). Composite family. 
August, September. 
A perennial with silky stem, a foot or two in height. The 
large flower-heads (three-fourths to one inch broad) in cluster 
(corymb), have many yellow rays and yellow disks. Leaves 
without stalks, narrowly oblong, lower somewhat spoon-shaped. 
Dry ground, southern New York and southward. Sickle-leaved 
Golden Aster {C. falcata) has a stiff, woolly, curving stem, under 
a foot high, with stiffly curving, narrow leaves. Sandy soil, 
e.g., on Cape Cod. Named from the Greek for gold. 
Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta). Composite family. 
June to September. 
Biennial or annual, maximum height three feet, with stout 
hairy stem. The flower-head (two to four inches broad) has 
about twelve yellow neutral rays surrounding a conical brown 
disk of perfect tubular flowers. The somewhat woolly leaves 
are not toothed; the upper are oblong or lance-shaped and 
have no stalks, the lower are somewhat spoon-shaped, with 
stalks. Common in fields. Named after Rudbeck, the botanist. 
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