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dwarf yellow fleabane

Erigeron aliceae

Alice Eastwood's fleabane

Habit Plants perennial, 3–20 cm; taprooted, usually with many woody, branching caudices. Plants perennial, 30–70 cm; fibrous-rooted, rhizomatous, caudices sometimes branching.
Stems

erect; hirsute, eglandular to minutely glandular.

erect, nearly glabrous or sparsely strigose often becoming more so distally, eglandular.

Basal leaves

persistent in dense clusters, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 10–80 × 1–3 mm;

margins entire with hispid hairs;

surfaces hirsute to hispid, sometimes nearing strigose.

usually persistent, lanceolate to oblanceolate, 50–120 × 10–30 mm;

margins entire, sometimes coarsely toothed with 1–5 pairs of teeth;

midveins prominent, rarely with 2 prominent veins;

surfaces remotely to moderately strigose.

Cauline leaves

abruptly reduced to (0)1–3 linear bracts.

well developed, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 10–80 × 3–14 mm, distally reduced, bases clasping.

Involucres

4–7 × 10–16 mm.

5–7 × 13–17 mm.

Ray florets

20–60;

corollas with well-developed yellow rays, 4–8 × 0.5–2 mm, or tubular and short, or rays lacking.

30–80, white to lavender to purple;

rays 4–12 × 1–1.5 mm.

Disc florets

corollas 4–5 mm.

corollas 2–4 mm.

Phyllaries

in 2–3 series, sparsely to moderately hispid-villous, often minutely glandular.

in 2–3 series, with dark green medial area;

surfaces white woolly-villous, glandular.

Fruits

2–3 mm, moderately strigose;

inner pappi of numerous barbellate bristles.

2–3 mm, moderately to densely strigose;

inner pappi of numerous barbellate bristles.

Heads

1, radiate or disciform.

1–few, radiate.

Erigeron chrysopsidis

Erigeron aliceae

Distribution
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Discussion

Western United States. 3 varieties.

Meadows, ridges, prairies. Flowering Jun–Sep. 400–2200 m. Casc, CR, ECas, Sisk. CA, WA. Native.

This is a variable species that can be confused with Erigeron glacialis. The woolly-villous phyllaries best distinguish E. aliceae from E. glacialis.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 254
James Riser, Stephen Meyers
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 252
James Riser, Stephen Meyers
Sibling taxa
E. acris, E. aliceae, E. annuus, E. aphanactis, E. aureus, E. bloomeri, E. cascadensis, E. cervinus, 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. 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
Subordinate taxa
E. chrysopsidis var. austiniae, E. chrysopsidis var. brevifolius, E. chrysopsidis var. chrysopsidis
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