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Sneezeweed. Swamp Sunflower

Helenium autumnale. Composite Family.

One to six feet high. Stem-Angled; erect; branching. Leaves.--Alternate; lance-shaped. Flower-heads.--Yellow; composed of both ray and disk-flowers, the rays three to five-cleft.

The general effect of this plant is similar to that of the wild sunflowers, but one is able to identify it easily on a close examination, by means of the stem, which is angled, and by the ray-flowers, which are pistillate and from three to five-cleft.

During September it is abundant in Connecticut, and farther south and westward, its bright flower-heads bordering the rivers, gilding the meadows, and illuminating many of those dim wood-land pools which flash upon us so constantly and enticingly as we travel through the country by rail.