. A manual of weeds : with descriptions of all the most pernicious and troublesome plants in the United States and Canada, their habits of growth and distribution, with methods of control . Weeds. 530 COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) with a liberal pinch of salt or a few drops of carbolic acid. Plants of roadsides and waste places should be grubbed out, or so fre- quently cut as to prevent seed development and distribution to the damage of adjacent property. FALL DANDELION Ledntodon autumn&lis, L. Other English names: Autumn Hawkbit, August Flower, Arnica, Lion's-tooth. Introduced. Perennial.
. A manual of weeds : with descriptions of all the most pernicious and troublesome plants in the United States and Canada, their habits of growth and distribution, with methods of control . Weeds. 530 COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) with a liberal pinch of salt or a few drops of carbolic acid. Plants of roadsides and waste places should be grubbed out, or so fre- quently cut as to prevent seed development and distribution to the damage of adjacent property. FALL DANDELION Ledntodon autumn&lis, L. Other English names: Autumn Hawkbit, August Flower, Arnica, Lion's-tooth. Introduced. Perennial. Propagates by seeds and by rootstocks. Time of bloom: Late June to October. Seed-time: August to November. Range: Newfoundland to western Ontario and Michigan, southward to Pennsylvania and Ohio. Habitat: Fields, meadows, roadsides, and waste places. Before flowering this plant looks very like the common Dandelion, the long, smooth, or slightly hairy tufted leaves having similar back- ward turned, sharp-pointed lobes or "lion's ; But instead of a taproot it has short, thick rootstocks, each of which may send up a tuft of leaves and a flowering stalk; so that the weed tends to grow in patches and rapidly chokes out the grass in lawns and meadows. Stems six inches to two feet tall, smooth, slender, branching, thick- ened at summit, with small, pointed, scale-like leaves. Heads with many tooth-tipped bright yellow rays, more than an inch broad, growing singly at the ends of the slim, naked branches. Achenes brown, nearly a quarter-inch long, ridged lengthwise, not beaked like the Dandelion, but having a yellowish white pappus of Fiq. 366. —Fall Dandelion one funnel-shaped row of plume- (Leontodon aittumnalis). X J. like bristles. (Kg. 366.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Geo
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