Engelmannia

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Engelmannia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Engelmannia (Dr. Geo. Engelmann, eminent botanist of St. Louis, died 1884). Compositae. One yellow-fld. herb, E. pinnatifida, Torr. & Gray, allied to Parthenium and Silphium, Kans, to La., Ariz, and Mex., that is likely to be planted in wild gardens. It grows a foot or two high, in dry places, from a stout perennial root, branching above, hirsute, with alternate and radical deeply pinnatifid Lvs., and corymbose heads of golden yellow fls. on slender and naked peduncles: involucre hemispherical, somewhat double; receptacle flat and chaffy; ray-fls. 8-10, pistillate and fertile, the rays ½ in. or more long; disk-fls. perfect and sterile: achene obovate, wingless, ribbed, with a persistent pappus-crown. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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