Part 24

Plate 41, fig. 3

The heads of the Sneezeweed are large and orange-yellow. They grow on stiff stems 2-6 ft. tall and bloom all summer. The plants are found in spruce forests, aspen woodlands and subalpine meadows at 9000-12000 ft. They are poisonous to stock. The common name has reference to the effect that the strong odor of the flowers have on some people.

Cream Tips Hymenopappus tenuifolius

Plate 41, fig. 4

The yellow heads of the Cream Tips are without ray-flowers. They grow on slender stems 1-4 ft. tall and bloom in spring and midsummer. The plants have very finely cut leaves and are found on prairies, plains and foothills at 3000-7000 ft.

Taper Leaf Pericome caudata

Plate 41, fig. 5

The Taper Leaf is a bushy ornamental plant covered in midsummer and autumn with open clusters of fragment yellow flower-heads. The tips of the leaves are narrowed to a long, slender point and this character is expressed in both the botanical and common names. The bushes grow 3-6 ft. high, and 3-8 ft. wide and occur on foothills and gravel-slides at 6000-8000 ft.

Marigold Dysodia papposa

Plate 41, fig. 6

The wild Marigold looks like a tiny form of the garden Marigold and has a similar spicy fragrance. It grows 1 in.-l ft. tall and is abundant along roadsides and in fallow fields and pastures at 3000-8000 ft.

ASTER FAMILY

1 Bahia: Bahia dissecta 2 Actinella: Actinella acaulis 3 Sneezeweed: Helenium Hoopesii 4 Cream Tips: Hymenopappus tenuifolius 5 Taper Leaf: Pericome caudata 6 Marigold: Dysodia papposa 7 Alpine Kobold: Rydbergia grandiflora]

Alpine Kobold Rydbergia grandiflora

Plate 41, fig. 7

This shaggy, gray-green little plant with its huge, hanging yellow head, often as broad as the stem is tall, is weirdly suggestive of fairy-folk. The stems grow 2-15 in. tall and bear flowers in midsummer. They are to be found only in alpine meadows at 10000-14000 ft.

LILY FAMILY

Wild Onion Allium cernuum

Plate 42, fig. 1

The Wild Onion bears open clusters of rose-purple flowers that droop in the bud, but rise gradually as they bloom, until the fruits are erect. They blossom in midsummer and are found in foothills, meadows, and aspen and spruce woods at 5000-10000 ft. The plants grow 1-2 ft. tall, and the bruised foliage and bulbs have the characteristic onion odor. The genus is widely cultivated and furnishes several varieties of onion, chives, leek, garlic and shallot.

Spring Lily Erythronium parviflorum

Plate 42, fig. 3

The yellow flower of the Spring Lily droops from a slender stem, 6-15 in. tall and blooms in the spring. The plant consists merely of two broad but pointed leaves, besides the flowering-stalk, and is found in meadows and spruce woods at 8000-12000 ft. It certainly deserves a place among cultivated plants.

Red Lily Lilium philadelphicum

Plate 42, fig. 4

The scarlet petals of the Red Lily are ornamented at their bases with dark reddish-brown spots that serve to direct visiting insects to the honey. The blossoms are large and conspicuous and occur singly at the tips of stiff stems, 2-4 ft. tall. They come into bloom in early summer and midsummer, and are found in bogs and along brook-banks at 7000-11000 ft. The Red Lily is very like the Tiger Lily of the garden and should be given a place there also, though it is not as yet widely cultivated.

LILY FAMILY

1 Wild Onion: Allium cernuum 3 Spring Lily: Erythronium parviflorum 4 Red Lily: Lilium philadelphicum 5 Wand Lily: Zygadenus elegans 6 Mariposa Lily: Calochortus Gunnisonii