This section is from the book "Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers", by Caroline A. Creevey. Also available from Amazon: Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers.
Family, Composite. Color of ray flowers white, of disk yellow. Flowers, small, terminating the branches and in the axils. Leaves, thin, ovate, toothed, with petioles. June to November.
A weed found plentifully in the back yards of city and country homes. Also in waste places everywhere. It is weak-stemmed, inclined to be procumbent, from a few inches to 2 feet in height. The pappus is of fringed or bristle-tipped scales. Smooth and odorless.
 
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