Wild Flowers of Western Canada (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Wild Flowers of Western Canada Silver - feather is a better name because of its plume-like leaves, silvered beneath by long, silky hairs and usually green on top. Sometimes, however, the upper surface has also a thin, silky covering. This variation with its cause is nicely shown by two patches beside the house of the Writer. One is close to the foundation on the south side in poor soil, exposed to full sunlight, and the leaves are gray green. The other is on the west side in rich loam, getting no sun'. Until after eleven o'clock, and here the upper surface is bright green. The yellow ¿owers are produced over a long season, as they spring from the axils of small leaves on the strawberry-like runners sent out in profusion. These runners are usually from one to three feet long, and from them new plants start every few inches. A mat of vegetation is soon formed. In producing and directing their runners, the plants exhibit something very like intelligence, as the following instance will show. On the shore of a little lake in 1919 grew a vigorous Silver - weed. The dry' season lowered the water until a strip of sandy bottom eight feet wide was exposed. The plant was crowded behind and on either side by competing neighbors, but in front lay this land of promise, so, with coneen trated energy, a. Single runner was pushed out straight towards it. By the twenty - fourth of August an advance of over five feet had been made, and eighteen young plants established on the line of march were aiding the parent in its forward movement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.