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showy daisy, showy fleabane, splendid fleabane

hairy-seeded daisy, cushion fleabane

Habit Perennial from a short, woody base, 1.5-8 dm. tall, the stems clustered, amply leafy, glabrous below the inflorescence. Taprooted perennial with short-branched, woody base; stems to 15 cm. high; plants more or less spreading-hairy and glandular throughout.
Leaves

Leaves glabrous, triple-nerved, entire, the lower oblanceolate or spatulate, petiolate, mostly deciduous, the other becoming sessile but ample.

Basal leaves linear-oblanceolate to spatulate, up to 8 cm. long and 12 mm. wide, the cauline leaves reduced.

Flowers

Heads 1-13 in a open inflorescence;

involucre 6-9 mm. high, glandular;

rays 65-150, blue or rarely white, 9-18 mm. long and 1 mm. wide;

pappus 20-30 bristles, a few of the outer ones shorter.

Heads solitary, hemispheric, the disk 9-20 mm. wide;

involucre 5-9 mm. high;

rays 15-45, pale pink or purple to deep violet, 4-15 mm. long and 1.3-3.6 mm. wide;

pappus of 20-30 capillary bristles.

Fruits

Achenes 2-nerved.

Achenes densely covered with long, silky hairs.

Erigeron speciosus

Erigeron poliospermus

Flowering time June-August April-June
Habitat Prairies and forest openings from the lowlands to middle elevations in the mountains. Dry, open, typically rocky areas, often with sagebrush.
Distribution
Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona, east to the Rocky Mountains and northern Great Plains.
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Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to Oregon, east to western Idaho.
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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. pumilus, E. salishii, 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. pumilus, E. salishii, E. speciosus, E. strigosus, E. subtrinervis
Subordinate taxa
E. poliospermus var. cereus, E. poliospermus var. poliospermus
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