Album Caption: Scnecio longilobus Benth. Family : Sunflower, Compositae. Flowers: Yellow composite with 1/2 inch disk and long yellow ray flowers. Heads in flat-topped clusters. Blooms through summer months. Leaves : Pinnate leaves with linear, threadlike, hairy leaflets. Seeds : Small dry seeds. Plant : Ill-scented perennial 1 to 2 feet high covered with white-woolly hairs and having a long taproot. The plant is very poisonous to cattle. Poison, alkaloid. Published in U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1030-M, figure 138. 1957.
Summary
Album Caption:
Scnecio longilobus Benth. Family : Sunflower, Compositae. Flowers: Yellow composite with 1/2 inch disk and long yellow ray flowers. Heads in flat-topped clusters. Blooms through summer months. Leaves : Pinnate leaves with linear, threadlike, hairy leaflets. Seeds : Small dry seeds. Plant : Ill-scented perennial 1 to 2 feet high covered with white-woolly hairs and having a long taproot. The plant is very poisonous to cattle. Poison, alkaloid.
Published in U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1030-M, figure 138. 1957.
Image located in U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library, Cannon, H.L. Collection album, Volume 1, no.79a.
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