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shaggy fleabane

cutleaf daisy, dwarf mountain fleabane, fernleaf fleabane, trifid mountain fleabane

Habit Perennial from a woody base and taproot, the stem 5-50 cm. tall, the herbage copiously spreading-hairy. Perennial from a tap-root, 3-25 cm. tall, the herbage densely glandular.
Leaves

Leaves basal and cauline, oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, up to 8 cm. long and 8 mm. wide.

Basal leaves trifid to ternately dissected;

cauline leaves few, linear and entire.

Flowers

Heads several, the disk 7-15 mm. wide;

involucre 4-7 mm. high, the bracts narrow, spreading-hairy;

rays 50-100, 0.7-1.5 mm. wide, usually white, occasionally pale blue or pink; disk corollas 3.5-5 mm. long, slender, yellow but paler below;

pappus of capillary bristles, with an outer row of shorter bristles.

Heads solitary on long, nearly leafless stems, glandular and hairy; pistillate flowers 20-60, with usually white but occasionally pink or blue rays up to 12 mm. long and 2 mm. wide, or wanting;

disk flowers yellow;

pappus of 12-20 capillary bristles.

Fruits

Achenes slightly hairy.

Erigeron pumilus

Erigeron compositus

Flowering time May-July May - August
Habitat Open places in the foothills, valleys and plains, often among sagebrush. Sandy riverbanks at low elevations to rocky outcrops at mid- to high elevation in the mountains
Distribution
Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to the Great Plains.
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Widely distributed on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, east to the northern Great Plains, also in northern and eastern Canada.
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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. 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. salishii, E. speciosus, E. strigosus, E. subtrinervis
E. acris, E. aliceae, E. annuus, E. aureus, E. basalticus, E. bloomeri, E. caespitosus, E. chrysopsidis, 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. pumilus var. intermedius, E. pumilus var. pumilus
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