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dwarf yellow fleabane

Willamette fleabane, Willamette Valley daisy

Habit Plants perennial, 3–20 cm; taprooted, usually with many woody, branching caudices. Plants perennial, 15–55 cm; taprooted, with upright, branching caudices.
Stems

erect; hirsute, eglandular to minutely glandular.

few to many; erect or decumbent, remotely to moderately strigillose, 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 withering by flowering, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 30–120 × 3–5 mm;

margins entire;

surfaces sparsely strigillose to minutely strigose, eglandular.

Cauline leaves

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

linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 10–100 × 1–3 mm, gradually reduced distally;

margins entire, usually 3-veined;

surfaces lightly to moderately strigose.

Involucres

4–7 × 10–16 mm.

3–5 × 7–15 mm.

Ray florets

20–60;

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

25–50, white to lavender;

rays 5–8(12) × 1–2 mm.

Disc florets

corollas 4–5 mm.

corollas 3–4 mm.

Phyllaries

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

in 2–3 series, usually with dark medial area, moderately to densely hirsute or strigose, eglandular.

Fruits

2–3 mm, moderately strigose;

inner pappi of numerous barbellate bristles.

1–2 mm, sparsely to moderately strigose;

inner pappi of numerous barbellate bristles.

Heads

1, radiate or disciform.

1–5 in corymb-like arrays, radiate.

Erigeron chrysopsidis

Erigeron decumbens

Distribution
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Discussion

Western United States. 3 varieties.

Prairies. Flowering May–Jul. 50–300 m. WV. Native. Endemic to Oregon.

Erigeron decumbens is federally listed as an endangered species. It is an Oregon endemic known only from scattered prairie remnants in the Willamette Valley where it inhabits seasonally flooded bottomland prairies as well as well-drained upland prairies. It has likely been extirpated from parts of its former range in Clackamas, Washington, and Yamhill counties.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 254
James Riser, Stephen Meyers
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 255
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. cervinus, E. chrysopsidis, E. compositus, E. corymbosus, E. coulteri, 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 decumbens ssp. decumbens, Erigeron decumbens var. decumbens
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