Erigeron eatonii |
Erigeron coulteri |
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Eaton's fleabane |
Coulter's fleabane |
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Habit | Plants perennial, 4–28 cm; taprooted, caudices branching or not. | Plants perennial, 15–55 cm; roots fibrous, rhizomatous, occasionally with branching caudices. |
Stems | erect to ascending or decumbent, usually strigose to occasionally villous, becoming woolly distally, sometimes minutely glandular. |
erect, sparsely villous, eglandular. |
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. |
occasionally withering by flowering, broadly oblanceolate-elliptic, 40–150 × 10–25 mm; margins entire or occasionally with poorly developed teeth; surfaces sparsely strigose or hirsute, eglandular. |
Cauline leaves | gradually to abruptly reduced distally, sometimes becoming linear and bract-like. |
lanceolate to elliptic, 10–80 × 2.5–25(30) mm, gradually reduced distally, bases clasping; margins entire or with minute teeth. |
Involucres | 4–6 × 8–15 mm. |
5–8 × 11–17 mm. |
Ray florets | 20–45, white to purple; rays 3–8 × 0.8–2.5 mm. |
60–110, white; rays 8–15 × 0.5–1 mm. |
Disc florets | corollas 3–4 mm. |
corollas 3–5 mm. |
Phyllaries | in 2–3 series; surfaces sparsely sericeous to densely villous, sometimes minutely glandular. |
in 2–3 series; surfaces moderately to densely hirsute or villous, eglandular to minutely glandular. |
Fruits | 2–3 mm, glabrate to remotely strigose; inner pappi of numerous barbellate bristles. |
1.5–2 mm, sparsely strigose; inner pappi of numerous barbellate bristles. |
Heads | 1–3 in scape- or corymb-like arrays, radiate. |
1(3), radiate. |
2n | =18. |
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Erigeron eatonii |
Erigeron coulteri |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Western United States. 6 varieties; 3 varieties treated in Flora. |
Moist coniferous forests, wet meadows. Flowering Jun–Aug. 1100–2000 m. BW. CA, ID, NV; northeast to MT, east to WY, southeast to NM. Native. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 256 James Riser, Stephen Meyers |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 255 James Riser, Stephen Meyers |
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