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California rayless fleabane

foothill fleabane, longleaf fleabane

Habit Perennial with a tap-root, 1-5 dm. tall, sub-erect, generally purplish at the base, the herbage covered densely with short, spreading hairs.
Leaves

Basal leaves triple-nerved, elongate, acute, tapering gradually below, up to 25 cm. long including the petiole, and 1 cm. wide;

cauline leaves reduced.

Flowers

Heads 1-16 in an open inflorescence;

involucres 5-7 mm. high, grey-hairy, its bracts somewhat imbricate;

rays 35-65, pistillate, deep blue or occasionally pink, 7-13 mm. long;

pappus double, the inner of 20-30 bristles.

Erigeron inornatus

Erigeron corymbosus

Flowering time July-August June-August
Habitat Dry slopes and forest openings, often where sandy or rocky. Open, usually dry places, often among sagebrush.
Distribution
Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; Washington to California, east to Nevada.
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Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; southern British Columbia to eastern Oregon, east to Montana, Wyoming, and Utah.
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Origin Native Native
Conservation status Review Group 1 in Washington (WANHP) Not of concern
Sibling taxa
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. 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. 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. inornatus var. inornatus
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