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Erigeron aliceae

Alice Eastwood's fleabane

Habit Plants perennial, 30–70 cm; fibrous-rooted, rhizomatous, caudices sometimes branching.
Stems

erect, nearly glabrous or sparsely strigose often becoming more so distally, eglandular.

Basal leaves

usually persistent, lanceolate to oblanceolate, 50–120 × 10–30 mm;

margins entire, sometimes coarsely toothed with 1–5 pairs of teeth;

midveins prominent, rarely with 2 prominent veins;

surfaces remotely to moderately strigose.

Cauline leaves

well developed, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 10–80 × 3–14 mm, distally reduced, bases clasping.

Involucres

5–7 × 13–17 mm.

Ray florets

30–80, white to lavender to purple;

rays 4–12 × 1–1.5 mm.

Disc florets

corollas 2–4 mm.

Phyllaries

in 2–3 series, with dark green medial area;

surfaces white woolly-villous, glandular.

Fruits

2–3 mm, moderately to densely strigose;

inner pappi of numerous barbellate bristles.

Heads

1–few, radiate.

Erigeron reductus

Erigeron aliceae

Distribution
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Discussion

Meadows, ridges, prairies. Flowering Jun–Sep. 400–2200 m. Casc, CR, ECas, Sisk. CA, WA. Native.

This is a variable species that can be confused with Erigeron glacialis. The woolly-villous phyllaries best distinguish E. aliceae from E. glacialis.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 252
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. 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. 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. 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
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