Marshallia
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Marshallia (Humphrey Marshall, wrote "Arbustum Americanum," 1785, the first American work on trees and shrubs; also founded one of the first American botanic gardens). Compositae. Perennial North American herbs, useful in outdoor planting. Tufted plants, growing about 1 ft. high, with entire lvs. and scapes bearing solitary rayless heads about 1½ in. across: involucre hemispheric or bell-shaped, its bracts narrow and green; fls. all perfect and fertile; pappus of 5-6 acute or acuminate scales.—About a half-dozen species. All may be grown in the open border in the N. and they may be prop, by division in the spring. Supposed to suggest the scabious. The blue anthers give a peculiar effect to the fls.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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