. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. COMPOSITE FAMILY. Southernwood. Artemisia abrotanum a tall, slender plant of three or four stalks growing together, topped with a large cluster of very brilliant purple flowers. It is the most brilliant purple wild flower of northern Ohio. In height it equals the sun- flowers and Joe Pye Weed. The leaves are alternate and scattered. Blazing Star, Liairis, is a genus of hardy perennials which bear their rose-red, or purple flowers in wand- like spikes; the petaloid colo
. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. COMPOSITE FAMILY. Southernwood. Artemisia abrotanum a tall, slender plant of three or four stalks growing together, topped with a large cluster of very brilliant purple flowers. It is the most brilliant purple wild flower of northern Ohio. In height it equals the sun- flowers and Joe Pye Weed. The leaves are alternate and scattered. Blazing Star, Liairis, is a genus of hardy perennials which bear their rose-red, or purple flowers in wand- like spikes; the petaloid coloring of the involucral bracts increasing the brilliancy of the flowers. The most showy species are Liatris Slegans and LicLtris pycnosthchya, both of southern habitat. Leopard's Bane, Doronicum, is a genus of hardy composites of which several species are coming into general use, because they bloom in May. The flowers resemble large, yellow, ox-eye daisies and are a brilliant addition to the spring garden. Southernwood, Artemisia abrd- tanum, is an aromatic, much- branched, woody-stemmed peren- nial, bearing many pale, grayish- green, dissected leaves and small yellowish flower-heads. It is occa- sionally found in old gardens. Wormwood, Artemisia absinth- ium, is closely allied to Southern- wood and greatly resembles it. The plant is two to four feet high, the leaves gray, much divided, and intensely bitter. The flower- heads are small and yellowish. An extensive use of the plant is in the manufacture of absinthe, of which it is the principal ingredient. S14. 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 Keeler, Harriet L. (Harriet Louise), 1846-1921. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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