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Klamath fleabane

Bloomer's fleabane

Habit Plants perennial, 5–25 cm; taprooted, caudices branching. Plants perennial, 3–22 cm; taprooted with branching caudices.
Stems

erect to decumbent-ascending; hirsute, eglandular;

hairs usually spreading and slightly reflexed.

erect, glabrous to densely strigose, eglandular.

Basal leaves

withering by flowering.

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

oblong to narrowly oblanceolate, 10–30 × 1–4 mm, slightly reduced distally or not;

margins entire;

surfaces moderately to densely hirsute, eglandular.

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

Involucres

4–6 × 8–14 mm.

5–8 × 6–16 mm.

Ray florets

20–40, lavender to purple;

rays 4–6 × 0.7–2 mm.

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Disc florets

corollas 3.5–5 mm.

corollas 4–6 mm; pale to bright yellow;

lobes often purple-tipped.

Phyllaries

in 2–3 unequal series;

surfaces glabrous to very sparsely hirsute, densely minutely glandular.

in 2–3 series, with dark medial area;

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

Fruits

2–3 mm, sparsely to densely strigose;

inner pappi of numerous barbellate bristles.

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

inner pappi of numerous barbellate bristles.

Heads

1–4 in loose corymb-like arrays, radiate.

1, discoid.

Erigeron klamathensis

Erigeron bloomeri

Distribution
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Discussion

Rocky areas, ridges, crevices. Flowering Jun–Sep. 500–1500 m. Sisk. CA. Native.

Western United States. 2 varieties.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 258
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. bloomeri, 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. 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
Subordinate taxa
E. bloomeri var. bloomeri, E. bloomeri var. nudatus
Synonyms Erigeron breweri, Erigeron breweri var. klamathensis
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