. 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. COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) 441 COTTON ROSE Glfola germdnica, Dumort Other English names: Herba Impia, Childing Cudweed, Downy- weed, Owl's Crown, Hoarwort. Introduced. Annual. Propagates by seeds. Time of bloom: June to September. Seed-time: August to November. Range: Atlantic States, New York to Georgia. Habitat: Dry fields and pastures. Its oddity tempts one to take a few plants to the home flow
. 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. COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) 441 COTTON ROSE Glfola germdnica, Dumort Other English names: Herba Impia, Childing Cudweed, Downy- weed, Owl's Crown, Hoarwort. Introduced. Annual. Propagates by seeds. Time of bloom: June to September. Seed-time: August to November. Range: Atlantic States, New York to Georgia. Habitat: Dry fields and pastures. Its oddity tempts one to take a few plants to the home flower garden when first seeing a patch of this weed. Stems five to fifteen inches high, simple or branching from the base, the whole plant grayish white with soft woolly hair. Leaves alternate and crowded thick on the stem, lance-shaped, sessile, acute, erect, less than an inch long. At the top of the stalk is bunched a dense cluster of white-woolly discoid flower-heads, from among which rise several short, leafy branches, like the stalk below but more slender, and these in turn may have a bunch of woolly flower-heads and more leafy branches terminated by more woolly blossoms. For this odd habit of bloom it is called Childing Cud- weed, and the early botanists named it Herba Impia because the children so undutifully ex- alted themselves above their mother. (Fig. 306.) Means of control The lowest cluster of flower-heads ripens first, and in order to keep them from reproduction c^ton Rose6(Gi- the plants must be cut as soon as these appear, f0ia germanica). before any "children" overtop them. x J-. PLANTAIN-LEAVED EVERLASTING Antenndria plantaginifdlia, Richards Other English names: Early or Spring Everlasting, Mouse-ear Ever- lasting, White Plantain, Ladies' Tobacco, Pussy-toes. Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds and by Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and
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