Erigeron pulchellus |
Erigeron compositus |
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hairy fleabane, poor robin fleabane, robin's plantain, robin's plantain fleabane |
cut-leaf daisy, cut-leaf fleabane, dwarf mountain fleabane, fern-leaf fleabane, trifid mountain fleabane, vergerette à feuilles segmentées |
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Habit | Perennials, 15–60 cm; rhizomatous, fibrous-rooted, primary rhizomes relatively slender, producing slender, herbaceous, scale-leaved, stoloniform rhizomes (rhizomes often not collected). | Perennials, 5–15(–25 cm); taprooted, caudices simple or branches usually relatively thick and short, rarely slender and rhizomelike, covered with persistent leaf bases. | ||||||||
Stems | erect to ascending (usually abruptly dilated proximal to heads), villous (more densely so on proximal 1/2), eglandular. |
erect (simple, ± scapiform), sparsely hispido-pilose, minutely glandular. |
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Leaves | basal (persistent) and cauline; basal blades oblanceolate to obovate or suborbiculate, subspatulate, 20–130(–180) × 6–30(–50) mm; cauline gradually reduced distally (bases clasping and slightly auriculate), margins usually dentate to denticulate, rarely entire, faces sparsely to moderately hirsute to hirsuto-villous, sometimes glabrate or glabrous (especially adaxially), eglandular. |
mostly basal (persistent); blades spatulate to obovate-spatulate, 5–50(–70) × (2–)4–12 mm, margins (1–)2–3(–4)-ternately lobed or dissected, cauline bractlike, mostly entire, faces densely hispiduloso-puberulent to glabrate, minutely glandular. |
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Involucres | 5–7 × 6–20 mm. |
5–10 × 8–20 mm. |
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Ray florets | 50–80(–100); corollas light blue to purplish, pink, or white, 6–10 mm, laminae coiling tardily at tips. |
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Ray (pistillate) florets | 20–60; corollas white to pink or blue, usually 6–12 mm, often reduced to tubes (heads disciform), laminae not coiling or reflexing. |
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Disc corollas | 4.5–6 mm. |
3–5 mm. |
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Phyllaries | in 2–3(–4) series, sparsely to moderately hirsute to hirsuto-villous (cross walls not distinctly colored), minutely glandular to stipitate-glandular. |
in 2–3 series (purple-tipped), hirsute (hairs spreading), minutely glandular. |
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Heads | 1–4(–9). |
(sometimes disciform) 1. |
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Cypselae | 1.3–1.8 mm, 2(–4)-nerved, faces sparsely strigose to glabrate or glabrous; pappi: outer 0 or of setae, inner of (22–)28–36 bristles. |
1.6–2.7 mm, 2-nerved, faces sparsely strigose-hirsute; pappi: outer usually of setae, sometimes 0, inner of 12–20 bristles. |
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2n | = 18, 36, 45, 54. |
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Erigeron pulchellus |
Erigeron compositus |
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Phenology | Flowering (May–)Jun–Aug. | |||||||||
Habitat | Sagebrush, rabbitbrush, aspen to aspen-fir, subalpine meadows, cliffs, talus, and boulders | |||||||||
Elevation | (in e Canada, possibly Greenland and Arctic bridge gap, 10–200–)1800–4300 m ((in e Canada, possibly Greenland and Arctic bridge gap, 0–700–)5900–14100 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
AL; AR; CT; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; NC; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; TN; TX; VA; VT; WI; WV; ON; QC
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AK; AZ; CA; CO; ID; MT; ND; NV; OR; SD; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; NF; NT; NU; QC; SK; YT; Greenland; e Asia (Russian Far East)
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Discussion | Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Correlations among ploidal level, breeding systems, and morphologic variation have been studied in detail in Erigeron compositus. Five informally designated population systems of diploids are geographically restricted (all of the northwestern United States and adjacent Canada) and primarily sexual, compared to the polyploids, which are agamospermous and apparently of hybrid origin, at least in some cases (R. D. Noyes et al. 1995; Noyes and D. E. Soltis 1996). Reduction in ray floret laminae usually is correlated with polyploidy. Plants with 1-ternately lobed leaves have been identified as var. glabratus, an element of variation that does not have a geographic pattern. Among closely related species, Erigeron compositus is the only one that produces strongly thickened caudex branches; occasional collections show a tendency toward the slender, loose branches characteristic of the other species. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 327. | FNA vol. 20, p. 300. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Erigeron | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Erigeron | ||||||||
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Synonyms | E. compositus var. discoideus, E. compositus var. glabratus, E. compositus var. multifidus, E. gormanii | |||||||||
Name authority | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 124. (1803) | Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 2: 535. (1813) | ||||||||
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