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dwarf yellow fleabane

Bloomer's fleabane, scabland fleabane

Habit Perennial with a tap-root and branched, short woody base, 5-15 cm. tall, the herbage with fine, white hairs aligned in one direction.
Leaves

Leaves all in a basal cluster, linear, 2-7 cm. long and 0.7-2 mm. wide.

Flowers

Heads solitary on long peduncles;

involucre 5-10 mm. high, with soft hairs; ray and pistillate flowers absent; disk corollas 4.5-7 mm. long, yellow;

pappus bristles 25-40, unequal.

Fruits

Achenes glabrous below, short-hairy above.

Erigeron chrysopsidis

Erigeron bloomeri

Flowering time May-July June-August
Habitat Shrub-steppe to open slopes of forests at middle elevations. Dry, open, rocky areas at low to moderate elevations
Distribution
Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; Washington to California, east to Idaho and Nevada.
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Occurring east of the Cascades crest in central and southeastern Washington; central Washington to California, east to Idaho and Nevada.
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Origin Native Native
Conservation status Not of concern Not of concern
Sibling taxa
E. acris, E. aliceae, E. annuus, E. aureus, E. basalticus, E. bloomeri, E. caespitosus, E. compositus, E. corymbosus, E. davisii, E. disparipilus, E. divergens, E. eatonii, E. elatus, E. filifolius, E. flettii, E. glacialis, E. howellii, E. inornatus, E. karvinskianus, E. leibergii, E. linearis, E. lonchophyllus, E. nivalis, E. oreganus, E. peregrinus, E. philadelphicus, E. piperianus, E. poliospermus, E. pumilus, E. salishii, E. speciosus, E. strigosus, E. subtrinervis
E. acris, E. aliceae, E. annuus, E. aureus, E. basalticus, E. caespitosus, E. chrysopsidis, E. compositus, E. corymbosus, E. davisii, E. disparipilus, E. divergens, E. eatonii, E. elatus, E. filifolius, E. flettii, E. glacialis, E. howellii, E. inornatus, E. karvinskianus, E. leibergii, E. linearis, E. lonchophyllus, E. nivalis, E. oreganus, E. peregrinus, E. philadelphicus, E. piperianus, E. poliospermus, E. pumilus, E. salishii, E. speciosus, E. strigosus, E. subtrinervis
Subordinate taxa
E. chrysopsidis var. chrysopsidis
E. bloomeri var. bloomeri
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