Erigeron acris |
Erigeron elatus |
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bitter fleabane |
swamp fleabane |
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Habit | Biennial or perennial, 0.5-8 dm. tall, often covered with stiff, blunt hairs. | |
Leaves | Basal leaves oblanceolate or spatulate, the cauline ones ample to strongly reduced, lance-ovate to linear-oblong; |
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Flowers | Heads usually several on somewhat glandular, curved peduncles; involucral bracts tapered and pointed; rays pistillate, numerous, erect, inconspicuous, white, up to 4 mm. long and 0.4 mm. wide; inner pistillate flowers rayless; pappus surpassing the disk flowers. |
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Erigeron acris |
Erigeron elatus |
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Flowering time | June-September | July-August |
Habitat | Meadows, forest openings, and open slopes from middle elevations to the subalpine. | Wet meadows, edges of ponds, and forested wetlands. |
Distribution | Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to the northern Great Plains, Great Lakes region, and northeastern North America; circumboreal.
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Reported east of the Cascades crest in north-central Washington; Alaska to Washington, east across Canada to the Atlantic Coast.
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Origin | Native | Native |
Conservation status | Not of concern | Not of concern |
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