Erigeron pulchellus |
Erigeron pulchellus var. pulchellus |
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hairy fleabane, poor robin fleabane, robin's plantain, robin's plantain fleabane |
robin's plantain, vergerette délicate |
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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). | |||||||||
Stems | erect to ascending (usually abruptly dilated proximal to heads), villous (more densely so on proximal 1/2), eglandular. |
hirsute to hirsuto-villous. |
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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. |
margins ciliate, faces hirsute to hirsuto-villous. |
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Involucres | 5–7 × 6–20 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. |
blue to pinkish. |
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Disc corollas | 4.5–6 mm. |
4.5–6 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. |
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Heads | 1–4(–9). |
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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. |
glabrous or glabrate. |
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Erigeron pulchellus |
Erigeron pulchellus var. pulchellus |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–May(–Jul). | |||||||||
Habitat | Bottomland, creek bottoms, ravines, swamp edges, dry to moist woods of oak, oak-pine, or mixed deciduous, prairies, roadbanks | |||||||||
Elevation | 50–900(–1200) m (200–3000(–3900) 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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AL; AR; CT; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; 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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Discussion | Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). (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. 327. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Erigeron | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Erigeron > Erigeron pulchellus | ||||||||
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Name authority | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 124. (1803) | unknown | ||||||||
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