HERB - ragweed

[sunshinegirl]

It sounds very similar.  I will have to find a picture to be sure.  All of
the flowers that I have counted petals on have been either nine (mostly) or
seven (a few).  There are only 1 to 5 flowers per stalk.  I'm not exactly
sure what you mean by "Heads numerous forming loose open terminal cluster."
 So far, though, this sounds like the closest written description that I've
found.  Now all I have to do is find a picture...
Thanks.
Melandra of the Woods

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> From: nweders at mail.utexas.edu
> To: herbalist at Ansteorra.ORG
> Subject: Re: HERB - ragweed
> Date: Thursday, July 23, 1998 5:06 PM
> 
>  I think I maybe have found one of the flowers that you are looking for..
> The info is from The Wildflowers of Texas by Geyata Ajilvsgi
> Shearer Publications.  It lists Bitterweed (Helenium amarum) ASTERACEAE 
an
> upright moundlike small annual herb 4-20 inches high stem inconspicuously
> grooved or ribbed, solitary or few,slender at base, usually much branched
> in upper portion.  Entire  plant bitterly aromatic.  FLOWER:  head to 1
> inch.  ray flowers, 8 petalled, yellow, toothed at tip, somewhat
drooping.
> Heads numerous forming loose open terminal cluster.  LEAVES:  long, very
> narrow or threadlike, stalkless, numerous in lower portion of the plant. 

>  Bitterwweed is not usuallly eaten by cattle and increases greatly in
> heavily grazed areaas.  Milk of cows that do feed on the herbage is
> extremely distasteful, and honey from the pollen is reportedly very
bitter
> and unpalatable.  
> 
> Is this it?
> 
> What fun, even if I'm wrong!
> 
> Clare 
> 
>
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