Excerpt from Louisiana Conservationist, Vol. 52: September/October, 2000 Flowering plants of the Asteraceae (sunflower) and Poaceae (grass) families dominate Louisiana's fall blooming season. Grasses, with their inconspicuous blooms, provide a graceful tex ture to the natural vista and food and cover for wildlife. Against this backdrop, members of the sunflower family provide color, dotting autumnal field and woodland with delicate hues that have become a signature for the season. 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.