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Bloomer's fleabane

Bloomer's fleabane, scabland fleabane

Habit Plants perennial, 3–22 cm; taprooted with branching caudices.
Stems

erect, glabrous to densely strigose, eglandular.

strigose.

Leaves

strigose.

Basal leaves

persistent, linear to very narrowly oblanceolate, 10–80 × 0.7–3 mm, bases white-indurate, often tinged with purple;

margins entire;

surfaces glabrous to densely strigose, eglandular.

Cauline leaves

linear, 1–5 × 0.5–2 mm, abruptly reduced.

Involucres

5–8 × 6–16 mm.

Ray florets

0.

Disc florets

corollas 4–6 mm; pale to bright yellow;

lobes often purple-tipped.

Phyllaries

in 2–3 series, with dark medial area;

surfaces glabrous to densely woolly-villous, minutely glandular to eglandular.

strigose to villous.

Fruits

3–5 mm, glabrous with few sericeous hairs at distal ends below inner pappi;

inner pappi of numerous barbellate bristles.

Heads

1, discoid.

2n

=18.

Erigeron bloomeri

Erigeron bloomeri var. bloomeri

Distribution
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Discussion

Western United States. 2 varieties.

Talus, shale, meadows, sagebrush, serpentine. Flowering May–Aug. 700–3100 m. BR, BW, ECas, Lava, Owy, Sisk. CA, ID, NV. Native.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 253
James Riser, Stephen Meyers
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 253
James Riser, Stephen Meyers
Sibling taxa
E. acris, E. aliceae, E. annuus, E. aphanactis, E. aureus, E. cascadensis, E. cervinus, E. chrysopsidis, E. compositus, E. corymbosus, E. coulteri, E. decumbens, E. disparipilus, E. divergens, E. eatonii, E. elegantulus, E. filifolius, E. foliosus, E. glacialis, E. glaucus, E. howellii, E. inornatus, E. karvinskianus, E. klamathensis, E. latus, E. linearis, E. lonchophyllus, E. nivalis, E. oreganus, E. peregrinus, E. petrophilus, E. philadelphicus, E. poliospermus, E. pumilus, E. simplex, E. speciosus, E. stanselliae, E. strigosus, E. tener, E. vagus
E. bloomeri var. nudatus
Subordinate taxa
E. bloomeri var. bloomeri, E. bloomeri var. nudatus
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