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dwarf yellow fleabane

Siskiyou daisy, Siskiyou fleabane

Habit Plants perennial, 3–20 cm; taprooted, usually with many woody, branching caudices. Plants perennial, 10–45 cm; fibrous-rooted, rhizomatous, occasionally with branching caudices.
Stems

erect; hirsute, eglandular to minutely glandular.

erect or ascending, glabrous and mostly 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.

persistent, oblanceolate to obovate, 10–100 × 5–15 mm;

margins entire;

surfaces glabrous, eglandular.

Cauline leaves

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

oblanceolate to elliptic, 10–50 × 2–10 mm, gradually reduced distally.

Involucres

4–7 × 10–16 mm.

4–6 × 10–13 mm.

Ray florets

20–60;

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

20–40;

corollas white to purple;

rays 3–7 × 0.5–1.5 mm.

Disc florets

corollas 4–5 mm.

corollas 3–5 mm.

Phyllaries

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

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

surfaces glabrous, densely glandular.

Fruits

2–3 mm, moderately strigose;

inner pappi of numerous barbellate bristles.

1.5–2 mm, moderately strigose;

inner pappi of numerous barbellate bristles.

Heads

1, radiate or disciform.

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

Erigeron chrysopsidis

Erigeron cervinus

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Discussion

Western United States. 3 varieties.

Streamsides, river bars, wet rocky banks, moist seeps. Flowering May–Aug. 0–1700 m. Sisk. CA. Native.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 254
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. 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. bloomeri, E. cascadensis, 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
Synonyms Erigeron delicatus
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