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slender fleabane

Bloomer's fleabane

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.

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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

Distribution
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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
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. 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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