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dwarf blue fleabane, volcanic fleabane

Bloomer's fleabane

Habit Plants perennial, 4–10 cm; taprooted, with branching caudices. Plants perennial, 3–22 cm; taprooted with branching caudices.
Stems

erect to basally ascending, sparsely to moderately strigose, eglandular.

erect, glabrous to densely strigose, eglandular.

Basal leaves

persistent, linear to filiform, 20–50 × 0.5–1 mm, white, bases sheathing;

margins entire;

tips round to acute or acuminate;

surfaces sparsely to moderately strigose.

persistent, linear to very narrowly oblanceolate, 10–80 × 0.7–3 mm, bases white-indurate, often tinged with purple;

margins entire;

surfaces glabrous to densely strigose, eglandular.

Cauline leaves

abruptly reduced and usually restricted to basal ? of stem, bases sheathing.

linear, 1–5 × 0.5–2 mm, abruptly reduced.

Involucres

3–5 × 8–11 mm.

5–8 × 6–16 mm.

Ray florets

15–30, lavender to purple;

rays 3–8 × 0.7–1.3 mm.

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Disc florets

corollas 2.5–3.5 mm.

corollas 4–6 mm; pale to bright yellow;

lobes often purple-tipped.

Phyllaries

in 3–4 unequal series;

surfaces sparsely strigose, eglandular.

in 2–3 series, with dark medial area;

surfaces glabrous to densely woolly-villous, minutely glandular to eglandular.

Fruits

1–2 mm, nearly glabrous to sparsely strigose;

inner pappi of numerous barbellate bristles.

3–5 mm, glabrous with few sericeous hairs at distal ends below inner pappi;

inner pappi of numerous barbellate bristles.

Heads

1, radiate.

1, discoid.

2n

=27.

Erigeron elegantulus

Erigeron bloomeri

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Discussion

Rocky areas, sagebrush, coniferous forests. Flowering Jun–Aug. 700–2500 m. BR, BW, Casc, Owy. CA. Native.

Western United States. 2 varieties.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 256
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. chrysopsidis, E. compositus, E. corymbosus, E. coulteri, E. decumbens, E. disparipilus, E. divergens, E. eatonii, 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. cascadensis, E. cervinus, 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. bloomeri var. bloomeri, E. bloomeri var. nudatus
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