Erigeron tener |
Erigeron bloomeri |
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slender fleabane |
Bloomer's fleabane |
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Habit | Plants perennial, 3–15 cm; taprooted, caudices branching. | Plants perennial, 3–22 cm; taprooted with branching caudices. |
Stems | erect, sparsely strigose, sometimes minutely glandular. |
erect, glabrous to densely strigose, eglandular. |
Basal leaves | persistent, narrowly oblanceolate-elliptic to spatulate, 5–50 × 1–4 mm; margins entire; tips acute; surfaces densely 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 | few, linear, 5–20 × ~1 mm, abruptly reduced distally. |
linear, 1–5 × 0.5–2 mm, abruptly reduced. |
Involucres | 3–5 × 7–11 mm. |
5–8 × 6–16 mm. |
Ray florets | 15–24, blue to purple; rays 3–6 × 0.5–1 mm. |
0. |
Disc florets | corollas 2–4 mm. |
corollas 4–6 mm; pale to bright yellow; lobes often purple-tipped. |
Phyllaries | medial areas usually purple; surfaces glabrous to moderately hirsute, densely glandular. |
in 2–3 series, with dark medial area; surfaces glabrous to densely woolly-villous, minutely glandular to eglandular. |
Fruits | 1–3 mm, 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(3), radiate. |
1, discoid. |
Erigeron tener |
Erigeron bloomeri |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Rocky areas, talus, slops, crevices. Flowering May–Aug. 1700–2500 m. BR. CA, ID, NV; northeast to MT, east to WY, southeast to AZ. Native. In Oregon, Erigeron tener is thus far known only from Steens Mountain. |
Western United States. 2 varieties. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 262 James Riser, Stephen Meyers |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 253 James Riser, Stephen Meyers |
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