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showy daisy, showy fleabane

Erigeron aliceae

Alice Eastwood's fleabane

Habit Plants perennial, 15–75 cm; rhizomatous, fibrous-rooted, caudices branching. Plants perennial, 30–70 cm; fibrous-rooted, rhizomatous, caudices sometimes branching.
Stems

erect;

surfaces glabrous to rarely remotely hirsute, sometimes minutely glandular distally.

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

Basal leaves

usually withering by flowering, oblanceolate to spatulate.

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

lanceolate, 20–80 × 5–15 mm, gradually reduced distally, bases ± clasping;

margins entire, usually long-ciliate;

surfaces glabrous, rarely remotely strigose.

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

Involucres

3–7 × 11–16 mm.

5–7 × 13–17 mm.

Ray florets

40–115+, lavender to purple;

rays 7–11 × 0.7–1.5 mm.

30–80, white to lavender to purple;

rays 4–12 × 1–1.5 mm.

Disc florets

2–3 mm.

corollas 2–4 mm.

Phyllaries

in 2–3+ series, usually with orange stripe;

surfaces basally hirsute to villous, occasionally minutely glandular.

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

surfaces white woolly-villous, glandular.

Fruits

2–3 mm, glabrous to sparsely strigose;

inner pappi of numerous barbellate bristles.

2–3 mm, moderately to densely strigose;

inner pappi of numerous barbellate bristles.

Heads

1–5+ in corymb-like arrays, radiate.

1–few, radiate.

Erigeron speciosus

Erigeron aliceae

Distribution
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Discussion

Conifer forests, moist slopes, riverbanks, wet meadows. Flowering Jun–Sep. 50–2500 m. BR, BW, CR, WV. ID, NV, WA; north to British Columbia, northeast to Alberta, east to NE, southeast to NM. Native.

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 draft
James Riser, Stephen Meyers
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
Synonyms Erigeron speciosus var. macranthus, Erigeron speciosus var. speciosus, Erigeron subtrinervis
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