WESTERN GOLDENROD.
Solidago occidentalis, Nutt. Composite Family.
Smooth throughout. Stems.—Paniculately branched; two to six feet high. Leaves.—Linear; entire; obscurely three-nerved; two to four inches long; one to three lines wide. Flower-heads.—In numerous small, flat clusters, terminating the slender branchlets; three lines long; yellow. Rays.—Sixteen to twenty not surpassing the eight to fourteen disk-flowers. Involucre.—Of imbricated scales; the outer successively shorter. Hab.—Near the Coast, from Southern California to British America.
The Western goldenrod, with its slender, willowy stems and small flower-clusters, may be found in wet places in late summer and early autumn. Its blossoms are acacia-scented.