This section is from the book "Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers", by Caroline A. Creevey. Also available from Amazon: Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers.
Family, Composite. Color, cream white. Leaves, alternate, entire, or sometimes toothed, lance-shaped to very narrow and long. September.
A plant with minute down, variable in height and outline of leaves. Resembling the thorough worts. Flowers in heads of panicled corymbs. Dry, sandy soil, New Jersey southward and westward to eastern Kansas.
 
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