WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS 
{The following Composites have no ray-flowers.) 
Common Everlasting (Gnaphalium polycephalum) . Com- 
posite family. August, September. 
A woolly, fragrant, upright annual, a foot or two in height, 
with a cluster of tubular (perfect and pistillate) flowers at the 
top. Leaves lance-shaped, tapering at the base, woolly beneath. 
Fields and woods. (Greek for a downy plant.) Pearly Ever- 
lasting (Anaphalis margaritacea) is a noticeable perennial. 
Average height eighteen inches. Flowers small, brown, tubular, 
dioecious, with pearly scales. Many lance-shaped, long-pointed, 
toothless leaves. Dry ground. Plantain-leaved Everlasting 
(Antennaria plantaginifolia) is the Everlasting of early spring, 
a perennial, with woolly stem varying from a few inches to one 
and one-half feet. The small flower-heads of tubular (generally 
dioecious) flowers are in a cluster at the top. Stem-leaves 
narrowly lance-shaped, basal leaves inversely lance- or egg- 
shaped. Banks. The Latin name refers to the pappus suggest- 
ing antennee. 
Silver-rod (Soliddgo hicolor). Composite family. July 
to September. 
A perennial with upright, generally unbranched stem a foot 
or two high; along which are clustered the small flowers with 
whitish pistillate rays, few in a cluster. Leaves pointed. Com- 
mon in dry ground. Name from soUdare, to make whole. 
White Lettuce (Prenanthes alba). Composite family. 
August, September. 
An upright perennial, usually unbranched, with smooth stem 
two to five feet high, with bloom, rising from a spindle-shaped 
tuber. The cream-colored, perfect flowers in flower-heads form 
drooping clusters at or near the top. The leaves are variously 
shaped, hastate, lobed, etc., the upper lance-shaped. Open 
woods and roadsides. Greek signifies drooping blossom. 
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