A magnificent plant, forming large clumps, two feet high, but not at all coarse in character. The leaves are very bright green, smooth and quite succulent, and cut into narrow lobes, so that the effect is graceful and unusual looking. The superb flowers are often four inches across, with clear light yellow rays and orange-yellow centers, and the lower row of bracts stand out stiffly like a ruffle and are like the leaves in texture and color, contrasting oddly with the upper bracts, which are satiny in texture and almost as yellow as the rays. These plants are conspicuously beautiful on the sea cliffs near San Diego.
Trixis
Tríxis angustifòlia var. latiúscula
Yellow
Spring
Southwest, New Mex.
A small evergreen shrub, about a foot high, with smooth, light dull green leaves, with a few fine teeth, and loose clusters of rather pretty, bright yellow flowers, the heads about three-quarters of an inch long. This grows on rocky hillsides and is quite effective.
There are a great many kinds of Chrysanthemum, widely distributed in the northern hemisphere.
Ox-eye Daisy
Chrysánthemum Leucánthemum
White
Spring, summer, autumn
Northwest, etc.
This is the well known common kind, a general favorite, except with farmers, naturalized from Europe and also found in Asia; a perennial weed in pastures, meadows, and waste places, more or less all over the United States, but much more common in the Northeast. It grows from one to three feet high, the leaves toothed and cut, and the flower-heads measuring from one to two inches across, with bright golden centers and pure white rays.
Trixis angustifolia—var. latiuscula.
Desert Coreopsis—C. Bigelowii.
Sea Dahlia—Coreopsis maritima.
There are several kinds of Coreothrogyne, some resembling Lessingia, others Aster.
Woolly Aster
Coreothrógyne filaginifòlia
Pink, purple
Spring, summer, autumn
California