Erigeron eatonii |
Erigeron pallens |
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Eaton's fleabane |
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Habit | Plants perennial, 4–28 cm; taprooted, caudices branching or not. | |
Stems | erect to ascending or decumbent, usually strigose to occasionally villous, becoming woolly distally, sometimes minutely glandular. |
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Basal leaves | persistent, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 20–150 × 2–10 mm; margins entire, usually with 3 distinct basal veins; tips usually rounded to acute or acuminate; surfaces strigose to hirsute, eglandular. |
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Cauline leaves | gradually to abruptly reduced distally, sometimes becoming linear and bract-like. |
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Involucres | 4–6 × 8–15 mm. |
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Ray florets | 20–45, white to purple; rays 3–8 × 0.8–2.5 mm. |
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Disc florets | corollas 3–4 mm. |
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Phyllaries | in 2–3 series; surfaces sparsely sericeous to densely villous, sometimes minutely glandular. |
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Fruits | 2–3 mm, glabrate to remotely strigose; inner pappi of numerous barbellate bristles. |
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Heads | 1–3 in scape- or corymb-like arrays, radiate. |
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Erigeron eatonii |
Erigeron pallens |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Western United States. 6 varieties; 3 varieties treated in Flora. |
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Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 256 James Riser, Stephen Meyers |
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