. The Indiana weed book. Weeds. 168 THE INDIANA WEED BOOK. GftOUP B. Here belong those weeds among our Composite which have one of more rows of conspicuous yellow rays around the margin of the head of flowers. These ray-flowers are in most species pistillate and fertile, that is, producing seeds, though in same they are neutral and sterile. To the group belong our weeds known as golden-rods, elecampane, cup-plant, ox-eyes, cone-flowers, sunflowers, actino- meris, bur-marigolds and sneezeweed. 135. Solidago canadensis L. Canada Golden-rod. (P. N. 3.) Stem stout, rough-hairy, 2-8 feet high; leav
. The Indiana weed book. Weeds. 168 THE INDIANA WEED BOOK. GftOUP B. Here belong those weeds among our Composite which have one of more rows of conspicuous yellow rays around the margin of the head of flowers. These ray-flowers are in most species pistillate and fertile, that is, producing seeds, though in same they are neutral and sterile. To the group belong our weeds known as golden-rods, elecampane, cup-plant, ox-eyes, cone-flowers, sunflowers, actino- meris, bur-marigolds and sneezeweed. 135. Solidago canadensis L. Canada Golden-rod. (P. N. 3.) Stem stout, rough-hairy, 2-8 feet high; leaves alternate, lanceolate, rough above, 3-nerved, pointed, the lower ones sharply toothed and stalked, 3-6 Inches long, the upper sessile, entire. Heads very numerous on one side of the spreading recurved branches of a large terminal panicle; in- volucre oblong, its linear appressed bracts in several overlapping rows; flowers bright yellow, the rays short, &-15 in a single row. Achenes cyl- indrical, glabrous; pappus of numerous rough, hair-like bristles. Abundant along fence-rows, roadsides and in old abandoned fields, especially in dry upland soil. This is probably the most common and widely distributed of the 30 or more golden- rods recorded from the State, All are among the most handsome of our autumn wild flowers, being for the most part wand plants with small densely clustered yellow heads. For the botanist they form a difficult group, being separated mainly by the size of the heads, their arrangement in flower clusters, and by the texture and shape of the leaves.' '' Hardly has the 'last rose of summer' departed when the early golden-rod appears and its later sisters brighten even the November landscape. Simple, hardy, every-day flowers, they are full of sunshine and good cheer, adding brightness to the dusty wayside and joy to the common paths of ; Associated with the Canada golden-rod and more often found on old half sterile slopes is the field g
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