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dwarf yellow fleabane

peregrine fleabane, subalpine fleabane

Habit Plants perennial, 3–20 cm; taprooted, usually with many woody, branching caudices. Plants perennial, 20–50 cm; fibrous-rooted, often rhizomatous, caudices usually simple.
Stems

erect; hirsute, eglandular to minutely glandular.

erect, nearly glabrous, or sparsely hirsute proximally to densely strigillose or pilose 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.

persistent, linear-oblanceolate to broadly oblanceolate, 30–150 × 8–30 mm;

margins entire;

surfaces glabrous, eglandular.

Cauline leaves

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

lanceolate to oblanceolate, 10–80 × 3–30 cm, reduced distally, bases occasionally clasping;

surfaces glabrous.

Involucres

4–7 × 10–16 mm.

5–8 × 12–15 mm.

Ray florets

20–60;

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

30–60, lavender to purple;

rays 5–9 × 1.5–4 mm.

Disc florets

corollas 4–5 mm.

corollas 4–6 mm.

Phyllaries

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

in 2–3 series, with dark medial area, glabrous, densely glandular.

Fruits

2–3 mm, moderately strigose;

inner pappi of numerous barbellate bristles.

2–4 mm, sparsely to moderately strigose;

inner pappi of numerous barbellate bristles.

Heads

1, radiate or disciform.

1(4), radiate.

Erigeron chrysopsidis

Erigeron glacialis var. glacialis

Distribution
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Discussion

Western United States. 3 varieties.

Meadows, streamsides, lakeshores, bogs. Flowering Jun–Sep. 800–3200 m. BR, BW, Casc, CR, ECas. CA, ID, NV, WA; north to AK, northeast to Alberta, east to WY, southeast to NM. Native.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 254
James Riser, Stephen Meyers
Flora of Oregon, volume 2 draft
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. glacialis var. glacialis
Subordinate taxa
E. chrysopsidis var. austiniae, E. chrysopsidis var. brevifolius, E. chrysopsidis var. chrysopsidis
Synonyms Erigeron peregrinus ssp. callianthemus, Erigeron peregrinus var. angustifolius, Erigeron peregrinus var. callianthemus, Erigeron peregrinus var. eucallianthemus, Erigeron peregrinus var. scaposus, Erigeron ursinus
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