[Illustration]
[Sidenote: _Senècio Lémmoni_
=Yellow
Spring
Arizona=]
This is quite effective, with attractive flowers and foliage, growing
among rocks on hillsides and forming large clumps over a foot high.
The stems are slender and often much bent, the leaves are dark green
and thin in texture with toothed edges, rolled back, and the numerous
flowers are an inch across, with bright yellow rays and deep yellow
centers. This plant blossoms both as an annual and as a perennial.
[Sidenote: =White Squaw-weed=
_Senècio cordàtus_
=White
Summer
Northwest=]
A rather handsome plant, with a stout stem, about two feet tall; the
upper leaves more or less downy and the root-leaves rather thick and
soft, covered with whitish hairs on the under side. The flower-heads
are about three-quarters of an inch across, with a fuzzy, pale yellow
center and white rays. This grows in open woods, at rather high
altitudes.
[Sidenote: _Senècio Riddéllii_
=Yellow
Spring, winter
Arizona=]
A rather showy plant, from six inches to two feet tall, blossoming both
as an annual and as a biennial, after which it dies. The whole plant is
smooth and the foliage is green or bluish-green, rather delicate and
pretty. The flowers are an inch to an inch and a half across and they
begin to appear in winter when there is little else to brighten the
desert mesas. This plant is abundant in valley lands, though it has a
wide range.
[Sidenote: _S. multilobàtus_
=Yellow
Summer
Ariz., Utah, etc.=]
A rather pretty plant, about a foot tall, with a few small leaves on
the slightly woolly stem, but most of them in a rosette at the base.
They are smooth, thickish and slightly stiff, about an inch and a
half long, and neatly cut into small, toothed lobes. The few flowers
are in a loose cluster at the top of the stem and have heads about
three-quarters of an inch across, with pale yellow rays and brighter
yellow centers. This grows at the Grand Canyon and on the dry plains of
Utah and Colorado, at altitudes of about seven thousand feet.
[Illustration: Leaf of S. multilobatus.
S. Riddellii.
S. Lemmoni.