The Plants of Michigan: Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the StateGleason, Henry A. (Henry Allan)
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The Plants of Michigan: Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State
Gleason, Henry A. (Henry Allan)
Plants -- Michigan
201b. Heads 12-50 mm. wide --203.
202a. Flower-clusters flat-topped =Yarrow, Achillea millefolium.=
202b. Flower-clusters very convex =Yarrow, Achillea lanulosa.=
203a. Principal leaves pinnatifid --213a.
203b. Principal leaves 1-3 times pinnately parted or dissected --204.
204a. Leaf-segments very narrowly linear; leaves 2-3-pinnate --205.
204b. Leaf-segments linear or lanceolate; heads 2.5-5 cm. wide
=Camomile, Anthemis arvensis.=
204c. Leaf-segments ovate to ovate-oblong; heads 1-2 cm. wide
=Feverfew, Chrysanthemum parthenium.=
205a. Foliage strongly scented =Dog Fennel, Anthemis cotula.=
205b. Foliage not ill-scented =Wild Camomile, Matricaria inodora.=
206a. Heads 3-6 mm. broad, including the rays (summer and autumn)
--207.
206b. Heads 7 mm. broad or larger, including the rays --209.
207a. Rays purple (1-4 dm. high) =Horse Weed, Erigeron divaricatus.=
207b. Rays white --208.
208a. Leaves obovate to oblong (3-10 dm. high) --135a.
208b. Leaves linear or narrowly lanceolate (2-25 dm. high)
=Horse Weed, Erigeron canadensis.=
209a. Pappus none, or minute and not of hairs (summer and autumn) --210.
209b. Pappus of hairs --214.
210a. Disk-flowers purple or brown (4-12 dm. high; rays pink)
(Purple Coneflower) --211.
210b. Disk-flowers yellow or nearly white --212.
211a. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, most of them serrate
=Purple Coneflower, Brauneria purpurea.=
211b. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, gradually narrowed at the base, entire
=Purple Coneflower, Brauneria pallida.=
212a. Rays broadly obovate; heads 1-2 cm. wide (3-6 dm. high)
=Sneezewort, Achillea ptarmica.=
212b. Rays oblong or narrowly elliptical --213.
213a. Leaves serrate (3-10 dm. high)
=Ox-eye Daisy, Chrysanthemum leucanthemum var. pinnatifidum.=
213b. Leaves entire (8-25 dm. high) =Boltonia, Boltonia asteroides.=
214a. Involucral bracts all the same length or nearly so and
narrow, or with a few short outer ones; plants blooming in
spring and summer, or a few plants persisting in bloom until
autumn (Fleabane) --215.
214b. Involucral bracts unequal, the outer successively shorter (or
rarely nearly equal), loosely or closely overlapping; plants
3-15 dm. high, blooming in late summer and autumn (Aster)
--221.
215a. Rays short and inconspicuous, barely longer than the pappus (1-5
dm. high; summer) =Fleabane, Erigeron acris var. asteroides.=
215b. Rays conspicuous, spreading, 3 mm. long or more --216.
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