Erigeron grandiflorus |
Erigeron lonchophyllus |
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large-flower daisy, large-flower fleabane, onestem fleabane, Rocky Mountain alpine fleabane |
short-Ray fleabane, spear-leaf fleabane, vergerette à feuilles fines |
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Habit | Perennials, 2–25 cm; rhizomatous, fibrous-rooted, caudices or rhizomes crownlike or branches relatively short and thick. | Biennials or short-lived perennials (sometimes appearing annual), 2–45(–60) cm; fibrous-rooted, caudices simple. |
Stems | erect to decumbent-ascending, sparsely to moderately pilose to villoso-hirsute, often stipitate-glandular over all or part. |
erect or basally ascending, sparsely to densely hirsute, eglandular. |
Leaves | basal (persistent) and cauline (petioles equaling or shorter than blades); blades oblanceolate to obovate or spatulate, 10–60(–90) × 3–8(–14) mm, cauline abruptly or gradually reduced distally, margins entire (apices rounded), faces sparsely hirsutulous or villous to sparsely strigose or glabrate, sometimes sparsely glandular. |
basal (persistent) and cauline; basal blades oblanceolate to spatulate, 13–80(–150) × 1.5–5(–12) mm, margins entire, usually spreading ciliate, faces sparsely to moderately hirsute to glabrate, eglandular; cauline mostly linear (sometimes longer than basal, usually erect or nearly so). |
Involucres | 5–8(–10) × 8–20 mm. |
4–9 × 7–17 mm. |
Ray florets | 50–130; corollas blue to pink or purplish, rarely white, 7–11(–15) mm (mostly 1–2 mm wide), laminae coiling. |
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Ray (pistillate) florets | 70–130 (in 1 series); corollas white to light pink, 2–3 mm, laminae (filiform) erect, not coiling or reflexing (not surpassing involucres). |
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Disc corollas | 2.4–4(–5) mm. |
3–5 mm. |
Phyllaries | in 2–3 series (green or purplish), moderately to densely woolly-villous (hairs flattened, cross walls sometimes reddish), minutely glandular at least apically. |
in 2–3 series (inner apices acute to acuminate), hirsute to strigoso-hirsute, eglandular. |
Heads | 1. |
1 or 3–12 usually in loosely racemiform arrays (from erect peduncles distal to midstems, sometimes on proximal 1/3). |
Cypselae | 1.8–2.4 mm, 2-nerved, faces strigose; pappi: outer of setae, inner of (7–)10–18(–22) bristles. |
1.3–1.8 mm, 2-nerved, faces sparsely strigose; pappi: outer of setae, inner of 20–30 (non accrescent) bristles. |
2n | = 18, 27. |
= 18. |
Erigeron grandiflorus |
Erigeron lonchophyllus |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Aug(–Sep). | Flowering (Jun–)Jul–Aug(–Sep). |
Habitat | Rocky sites, meadows, alpine or near timberline | Moist edges of streams, bogs, ponds, moist tundra, hummocks in meadows, ditch banks, gravelly places, along roads |
Elevation | 2900–4200 m (9500–13800 ft) | (900–)1400–3600 m ((3000–)4600–11800 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CO; ID; MT; NM; OR; UT; WY; AB; BC
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AK; AZ; CA; CO; ID; MN; MT; ND; NE; NM; NV; OR; SD; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; MB; NT; ON; QC; SK; YT
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Discussion | S. A. Spongberg (1971) recognized only the triploid populations as Erigeron grandiflorus and assigned the diploid ones to E. simplex. He hypothesized that the triploids incorporate genomic elements from an ancestor other than E. simplex. Based on his comments and annotations, however, triploids in southern Canada and the western United States apparently differ from the much more widespread diploids only quantitatively, having involucres and florets at the higher end of size ranges. Morphologic distinctions between the ploidal races do not provide a basis for consistent distinction. Spongberg (p. 200) also noted that “because of the intergrading of morphologic features of plants of Erigeron grandiflorus...the single most important criterion indicative of this taxon is highly irregular [in shape] and greatly abortive pollen.” These pollen features result from meiotic anomalies associated with the triploid condition. Specimen citations by A. Cronquist (1947) for Erigeron grandiflorus were mostly from collections of the species treated here as E. porsildii. He also cited two collections from southwestern Alberta; those and the type collection of E. grandiflorus (from the same region) are disjunct by more than 1500 kilometers from the more northern range of E. porsildii and instead lie at the northern extremity of the range of what previously has generally been identified as E. simplex. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 324. | FNA vol. 20, p. 320. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Erigeron | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Erigeron |
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Synonyms | E. simplex | E. acris subsp. racemosus, E. lonchophyllus var. laurentianus, E. minor, E. racemosus, Trimorpha lonchophylla |
Name authority | Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 18, plate 123. (1834) | Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 18. (1834) |
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