How to Know the Wild Flowers

The book that taught America botany by color: find your flower under White, Yellow, Pink or Blue, and read its name, its haunts and its folklore — the first field guide organized the way people actually look.

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Early Everlasting. Plantain-Leaved Ever-Lasting

Antennaria plantaginifolia. Composite Family.

Stems.--Downy or woolly, three to eighteen inches high. Leaves.--Silky, woolly when young; those from the root, oval, three-nerved; those on the flowering stems, small, lance-shaped. Flower-heads.--Crowded; clustered; small; yellowish-white; composed entirely of tubular flowers. In early spring the hillsides are whitened with this, the earliest of the everlastings.

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