YELLOW OR YELLOWISH FLOWERS 
Class IL — Flowers Axillary 
Blue-stemmed Golden-rod {SoUdago ccesia). Composite 
family. August to October. 
A golden-rod with slender, curving, bluish stem a foot or two 
high, or more, sometimes branching. The little flower-heads, 
each with four or five tiny spreading rays, are clustered along 
the stem in the axils of the leaves. This is a very common 
golden-rod and one easily recognized. In fact there is nothing 
to confound it with unless 5. latifolta, a much rarer find. Soli- 
dago ccBsia grows freely along almost any woody roadside, but 
to find 5. latifolia for comparison one must take the path per- 
haps through deeper woods where its stout zigzag stems and 
broad leaves grow luxuriantly, though not profusely, under 
the trees. 
Broad-leaved Golden-rod (SoUdago latifolia). Composite 
family. July to October. 
A species resembling the ccBsia, one to three feet high, but 
with very broad leaves, a stouter zigzag, angled stem, and with 
small, close clusters of flower-heads having generally only three 
or four rays, never over six. Rich woods-. 
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