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Leiberg's fleabane

Salish fleabane, star peak fleabane

Habit Perennial from a stout, branched, woody base, 7-25 cm. tall, herbage with soft, curled hairs and stalked glands. Perennial from a taproot and branched crown, forming dense cushions, the simple, erect, scape-like stems 1.5-7 cm. high, pubescent.
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.

Leaves all basal on slender petioles;

leaf blades obovate-spatulate, 3-16 mm. long and 3-6 mm. wide, the bases abruptly expanded, the margins usually with 3 rounded lobes and marginal hairs, the faces with stiff hairs.

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.

Heads solitary, the involucres 8-11 mm long, the bracts in 2-3 series, usually purplish, especially the tips;

ray flowers 15-32, white to bluish, 6-10 mm. long, spreading;

disk flowers yellow;

pappus of capillary bristles

Fruits

Achenes 2-2.6 mm. long, 2-nerved.

Erigeron leibergii

Erigeron salishii

Flowering time June-August July-September
Habitat Cliffs and rocky places at moderate to high elevations in the mountains. Cliffs, ridges, ledges and gravelly slopes at mid- to high elevations in the mountains.
Distribution
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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Ocurring east of the Cascades crest in the North and Central Cascade Mountains in Washington; southwestern British Columbia to central Washington.
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Origin Native Native
Conservation status Not of concern Sensitive in Washington (WANHP)
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. 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
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. leibergii, E. linearis, E. lonchophyllus, E. nivalis, E. oreganus, E. peregrinus, E. philadelphicus, E. piperianus, E. poliospermus, E. pumilus, E. speciosus, E. strigosus, E. subtrinervis
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