Erigeron reductus |
Erigeron aliceae |
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Alice Eastwood's fleabane |
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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. |
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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. |
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Cauline leaves | well developed, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 10–80 × 3–14 mm, distally reduced, bases clasping. |
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Involucres | 5–7 × 13–17 mm. |
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Ray florets | 30–80, white to lavender to purple; rays 4–12 × 1–1.5 mm. |
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Disc florets | corollas 2–4 mm. |
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Phyllaries | in 2–3 series, with dark green medial area; surfaces white woolly-villous, glandular. |
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Fruits | 2–3 mm, moderately to densely strigose; inner pappi of numerous barbellate bristles. |
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Heads | 1–few, radiate. |
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Erigeron reductus |
Erigeron aliceae |
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Distribution | ||
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. |
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Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 252 James Riser, Stephen Meyers |
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