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.
Heliopsis helianthoides-----Family, Composite. Color, yellow. heaves, opposite, acute at apex, ovate to lance-shaped, with petioles, toothed. August.
This yellow daisy is not to be confounded with the commoner purple-coned daisy. It may easily be mistaken for a sunflower, but has fewer and narrower rays, about 10. The heads of flowers are showy on the ends of branches. 1 to 4 feet high. New York southward and westward.
 
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