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hairy daisy, woolly daisy, woolly fleabane

Habit Perennials, 2–5 cm; taprooted, roots sometimes barely evident, caudices diffuse, with extensive systems of rhizomelike, relatively long, slender branches.
Stems

erect (simple, ± scapiform), finely and loosely villous, minutely glandular.

Leaves

basal (persistent);

blades oblanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, 5–25(–30) × 2–5 mm, strongly reduced distally, margins usually entire, smallest and earliest usually 3-toothed or -lobed apically (lobes or teeth acute), ultimately entire, finely and loosely lanate-villous, eglandular.

Involucres

9–13 × 12–23 mm.

Ray florets

30–80;

corollas white or purplish, 8–11 mm, laminae not coiling or reflexing, spreading.

Disc corollas

5–6.5 mm.

Phyllaries

in 2–3 series (purple or purple-tipped), moderately to densely, finely and loosely villous (hairs sometimes with purple cross walls), minutely glandular.

Heads

1.

Cypselae

3.5–4 mm, 2-nerved, faces finely hirtellous to glabrate;

pappi: outer of setae, inner of 25–35 (whitish to tawny) bristles (often twisted).

2n

= 36.

Erigeron lanatus

Phenology Flowering Jul–Aug.
Habitat Open, rocky, alpine and subalpine habitats, often on limestone talus
Elevation (1300–)2100–4100 m ((4300–)6900–13500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CO; MT; WY; AB; BC
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Source FNA vol. 20, p. 302.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Erigeron
Sibling taxa
E. abajoensis, E. acomanus, E. acris, E. aequifolius, E. algidus, E. aliceae, E. allocotus, E. alpiniformis, E. anchana, E. annuus, E. aphanactis, E. arenarioides, E. argentatus, E. arisolius, E. arizonicus, E. asperugineus, E. aureus, E. barbellulatus, E. basalticus, E. bellidiastrum, E. bigelovii, E. biolettii, E. blochmaniae, E. bloomeri, E. breweri, E. caespitosus, E. calvus, E. canaani, E. canus, E. cascadensis, E. cavernensis, E. cervinus, E. chrysopsidis, E. clokeyi, E. compactus, E. compositus, E. concinnus, E. consimilis, E. corymbosus, E. coulteri, E. cronquistii, E. davisii, E. decumbens, E. denalii, E. disparipilus, E. divergens, E. eatonii, E. elatior, E. elatus, E. elegantulus, E. elmeri, E. engelmannii, E. evermannii, E. eximius, E. filifolius, E. flabellifolius, E. flagellaris, E. flettii, E. foliosus, E. formosissimus, E. garrettii, E. geiseri, E. glabellus, E. glacialis, E. glaucus, E. goodrichii, E. gracilis, E. grandiflorus, E. greenei, E. heliographis, E. hessii, E. howellii, E. humilis, E. hyperboreus, E. hyssopifolius, E. inornatus, E. jonesii, E. kachinensis, E. karvinskianus, E. klamathensis, E. kuschei, E. lackschewitzii, E. lassenianus, E. latus, E. leibergii, E. leiomerus, E. lemmonii, E. linearis, E. lobatus, E. lonchophyllus, E. maguirei, E. mancus, E. maniopotamicus, E. mariposanus, E. melanocephalus, E. miser, E. modestus, E. muirii, E. multiceps, E. nanus, E. nauseosus, E. nematophyllus, E. neomexicanus, E. nivalis, E. ochroleucus, E. oreganus, E. oreophilus, E. ovinus, E. oxyphyllus, E. pallens, E. parishii, E. parryi, E. peregrinus, E. petrophilus, E. philadelphicus, E. pinnatisectus, E. piperianus, E. piscaticus, E. poliospermus, E. porsildii, E. pringlei, E. procumbens, E. pulchellus, E. pulcherrimus, E. pumilus, E. purpuratus, E. pygmaeus, E. quercifolius, E. radicatus, E. reductus, E. religiosus, E. rhizomatus, E. robustior, E. rybius, E. rydbergii, E. salishii, E. salmonensis, E. sanctarum, E. saxatilis, E. sceptrifer, E. scopulinus, E. serpentinus, E. sionis, E. sivinskii, E. sparsifolius, E. speciosus, E. strigosus, E. subglaber, E. subtrinervis, E. supplex, E. tenellus, E. tener, E. tenuis, E. tracyi, E. trifidus, E. tweedyi, E. uintahensis, E. uncialis, E. uniflorus, E. untermannii, E. ursinus, E. utahensis, E. vagus, E. velutipes, E. vernus, E. versicolor, E. vetensis, E. vicinus, E. vreelandii, E. watsonii, E. wilkenii, E. yukonensis
Name authority Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 17, plate 121. (1834)
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