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Flowers (above)
and stem (right)
of the Smelter’s
Bush.
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permit to keep them on the
property (Category 1b). If
there is no reason why they
should be on the property, a
permit can be denied and the
law requires one to remove
and destroy the species on
the property.
Seeds of the Smelter's bush
are spread by water, wind,
vehicles and people. One
plant can sometimes produce
100 or more flower heads in
summer in a tightly packed
array. Each head contains
three to eight yellow flowers.
The leaves are bluish-green,
opposite, shortly stalked,
linear to lance-shaped.
Leaf margins are finely
serrated, and prominently
three-veined from the base.
The flowers are yellow; the
central flowers are tubular
and are 4-6mm long. The
corolla is bright yellow,
2,3mm in length and the
tube is 0,8mm. Flowers are
five to 15 pieces. The plant
flowers in summer.
Now here's some technical
stuff which you may or may
not understand: “fruit is an
achene of about 3mm long.
The achenes are black, little,
flat and oblanceolate or
nearly rod-like with no
pappus.” No fine.
QUIRKY
Gatvol of cable-theft, this is
one Honeydew landowner’s
solution to the problem.