. 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. 548 COMPOSITAE {COMPOSITE FAMILY) labor of hand-pulling is not too great a price to pay in order to save clean ground from being fouled with'a growth so pernicious. FALSE DANDELION Pyrrhopdppus carolinianus, DC. '(Sitllias caroliniana, Raf.) Native. Annual or biennial. Propagates by seeds. Time of bloom: April to July. Seed-time: May to August. Range: Delaware to Missouri, southward to Florida, Louis
. 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. 548 COMPOSITAE {COMPOSITE FAMILY) labor of hand-pulling is not too great a price to pay in order to save clean ground from being fouled with'a growth so pernicious. FALSE DANDELION Pyrrhopdppus carolinianus, DC. '(Sitllias caroliniana, Raf.) Native. Annual or biennial. Propagates by seeds. Time of bloom: April to July. Seed-time: May to August. Range: Delaware to Missouri, southward to Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. Habitat: Dry soil; fields, pastures, roadsides, and waste places. Very like a Dandelion in its appearance but for its branched and leafy stems; these- are one to nearly three feet tall, slender, and smooth. Basal leaves oblong to lance-shaped, three to eight inches long, coarsely toothed and . lobed, sometimes pinnatifid, nar- rowing to margined petioles; stem leaves more slender, acute, en- tire, sessile or partly clasping. Heads solitary at summit of stem and branches, nearly two inches broad, with many deep yellow rays; involucre slightly hairy, its outer bracts spreading, awl-like, and short, subtending the linear, erect, and slightly united inner row. Achenes reddish brown, oblong, five-ribbed, narrowed to a thread-like beak, with a showy, copious pappus of soft rust-red hairs, surrounded at its base by a ring of white down; (Fig. 380.). Fig. 380. — False Dandelion (Pyr- rhopappus carolinianus); X 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 Georgia, Ada Eljiva, 1859-1921. New York : Macmillan
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