. Wild flowers every child should know : arranged according to color with reliable descriptions of the more common species of the United States and Canada . s dense. The strap-shapedflorets have a finely notched, square tip, and fromfifteen to forty are set in a small, light green are set on the tips of the forks, and form a loose, 200 WILD FLOWERS yellow and orange scrawly, few-flowered cluster. They are found in dry,open, rocky woods and thickets from May to October,from Georgia, Kentucky, and Nebraska to Canada. HAIRY HAWKWEED Hteracium Gronovti. This slender, wand-like Hawkweed gr
. Wild flowers every child should know : arranged according to color with reliable descriptions of the more common species of the United States and Canada . s dense. The strap-shapedflorets have a finely notched, square tip, and fromfifteen to forty are set in a small, light green are set on the tips of the forks, and form a loose, 200 WILD FLOWERS yellow and orange scrawly, few-flowered cluster. They are found in dry,open, rocky woods and thickets from May to October,from Georgia, Kentucky, and Nebraska to Canada. HAIRY HAWKWEED Hteracium Gronovti. This slender, wand-like Hawkweed grows fromone to three feet in height. The stem is stiff, hairy, andsometimes nearly leafless. The long oval basal leavesare either entire or toothed, and are usually narrowedinto short stems. The upper leaves are oblong oroval, and all are rough, hairy, and strongly stalk forks at the top to receive the numerousyellow. Dandelion-like flowers. The flowers openonly in the bright sun, and wilt immediately whenplucked. They are found from July to September,in dry locations, from Florida and Louisiana to Massa-chusetts, Illinois and Ontario. 20I. LEAF AND ROOT FORMS Section IVWHITE AND GREENISH FLOWERS 203 BROAD=LEAVED ARROWHEAD Sagtttarta latifolia. Water-plantain Family. THE Arrowhead is a very decorative and common,mud-loving, white-flowered aquatic perennial,blooming from July to September, in shallow wateralong the margins of slow streams, ponds, and exceedingly variable leaves are generally arrow-shaped, sometimes sharp and narrow, or again bluntand broad. They are thick, spongy, and rubbery,and have long stems. Others, which are entirelysubmerged under the water, are long and many-angled, milky-juiced, flowering stalk is eitherstout or slender, and grows from a few inches to sev-eral feet in height. The flowers have three prom-inent, rounded, spreading, white petals with either acentral cluster of golden yellow stamens or a large,green pis
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