HERB - ragweed

[sunshinegirl]

I found a picture.  You are right on the money - that is indeed my mystery
plant!!
Thanks so much.

Melandra of the Woods.
 p.s.  I found the picture in a fascinating web site

http://leviathan.tamu.edu:70/0/pubs/Weeds

All kinds of neat plants pictured here...


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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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