Arizona Gaillardia
Gaillàrdia Arizònica
Yellow
Spring
Arizona
A pretty little desert plant, from four to eight inches tall, with a slender, downy flower-stalk, springing from a cluster of roughish, light dull green leaves, more or less hairy and bearing a single handsome flower, nearly two inches across, with a downy involucre and three-toothed rays of an unusual and pretty shade of dull light yellow, finely veined with brown on the back, surrounding a darker yellow, fuzzy center.
Tiny Tim
Hymenathèrum Hartwégi
Yellow
Spring
Arizona
A neat little evergreen, shrubby plant, only about three inches high, with branching stems, clothed with small, narrow, dull green leaves, which look prickly but are actually not very stiff, though tipped with tiny bristles. The flowers are three-eighths of an inch across, very perfect in outline, with bright yellow rays and deeper yellow centers, and the whole effect, of a tiny shrub sprinkled with flowers, is quite attractive, growing on very dry ground along the roadside. The plant has a pronounced smell, which is not unpleasant.
Tall Purple Aster
Machaeranthèra incàna (Aster)
Purple
Spring
Southwest, Utah, New Mex.
This looks a good deal like an Aster, a branching plant, from two to nearly three feet high, with grayish-green, slightly downy leaves, with very sharp teeth. The flowers are an inch and a half across, with narrow, bright violet rays and bright yellow centers. This grows abundantly in valleys.
Purple Aster—Machaeranthera incana.
Tiny Tim—Hymenatherum Hartwegi.
Blanket-flower—Gaillardia pinnatifida.
Arizona Gaillardia—G. Arizonica.
Laphàmia bisetòsa
Yellow
Summer
Ariz., New Mex., Tex.
An insignificant plant, except that it grows on the sides of bare, red rocks or head-downward on the under side of overhanging ledges, apparently needing little or no soil, and is therefore noticeable. It forms round clumps, one or two feet across, with many slender stems, about six inches high, small, pale yellowish-green, roughish leaves, and small yellow flower-heads, without rays. This is rare and grows in the Grand Canyon.