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dwarf yellow fleabane

Leiberg's fleabane

Habit Perennial from a stout, branched, woody base, 7-25 cm. tall, herbage with soft, curled hairs and stalked glands.
Leaves

Basal leaves broadly oblanceolate to elliptic, entire or with fine teeth, up to 12 cm. long and 2 cm. wide;

cauline leaves several, fairly well developed, oblanceolate to elliptic.

Flowers

Heads 1-5, the disk 7-14 mm. wide;

involucre 5-8 mm. high, the bracts sub-equal, thin, green, loose;

rays 20-45, pistillate, blue or pink, rarely white, 5-12 mm. long and 1.3-2 mm. wide; disk corollas 3-4.3 mm. long, yellow;

pappus of 12-16 capillary bristles.

Erigeron chrysopsidis

Erigeron leibergii

Flowering time May-July June-August
Habitat Shrub-steppe to open slopes of forests at middle elevations. Cliffs and rocky places at moderate to high elevations in the mountains.
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 In the Wenatchee Mountains of Okanogan, Chelan and Kittitas counties; British Columbia to Washington.
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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. bloomeri, 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. 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
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