Erigeron radicatus |
Erigeron flagellaris |
|
---|---|---|
Hooker's fleabane, Huber's fleabane, tap-root fleabane |
trailing fleabane, whiplash daisy |
|
Habit | Perennials, (1–)2–6(–12) cm; taprooted, caudices branches relatively short, thick. | |
Stems | erect, strigose to sparsely or densely short-villous (hairs loosely appressed to ascending or spreading), eglandular. |
first erect (greenish proximally; usually single, simple), then producing herbaceous, leafy, prostrate runners (usually with rooting plantlets at tips, populations often becoming clonal mats), strigose (often sparsely; hairs antrorsely appressed, consistent in orientation), sometimes slightly glandular distally. |
Leaves | mostly basal (persistent) (eciliate or weakly ciliate proximally); blades 1-nerved linear to narrowly oblanceolate or subspatulate, (5–)10–50(–60) × 0.8–2.5 mm (bases gradually narrowing), margins entire (apices obtuse to rounded), abaxial faces glabrate or glabrous, shiny, adaxial sparsely, loosely strigose, eglandular; cauline mostly on proximal 1/2–1/3 of stems (absent in some high elevation forms), abruptly or gradually reduced distally. |
basal (often persistent) and cauline; basal blades broadly oblanceolate to elliptic, 20–55 × 3–9 mm; cauline abruptly reduced distally, margins entire or dentate, faces strigose, eglandular. |
Involucres | (3–)4–6(–8) × (5–)8–12(–15) mm. |
3–5 × 6–13 mm. |
Ray florets | (12–)20–44(–85); corollas white, less commonly purplish, 4–7(–8) mm, laminae coiling. |
40–125; corollas white, often with an abaxial midstripe, often drying lilac, 4–10 mm, laminae not coiling or reflexing. |
Disc corollas | (2–)2.5–3.5(–4) mm. |
2–3.5 mm. |
Phyllaries | in 2–3(–4) series (subequal), villosulous to villoso-hirsutulous (hairs usually with purplish cross walls at least in basal cells), minutely glandular apically or eglandular. |
in 2–3 series, strigose to loosely hirsute, minutely glandular. |
Heads | 1. |
1(–3, on proximal branches). |
Cypselae | 2.1–2.5 mm, 2-nerved, faces sparsely strigose; pappi: outer of scales, inner of (6–)7–11 (readily falling) bristles. |
0.8–1.3 mm, 2-nerved, faces sparsely strigose; pappi: outer of setae, inner of 10–17 bristles. |
Biennuals | or short-lived perennials, 3–15 cm; usually fibrous-rooted, sometimes taprooted, caudices lignescent, rarely branched. |
|
2n | = 18, 27, 36, 45, 54. |
|
Erigeron radicatus |
Erigeron flagellaris |
|
Phenology | Flowering May–Aug. | Flowering May–Aug(–Sep). |
Habitat | Rocky slopes, ridges, and summits, ledges and crevices, outcrops and talus, usually limestone, alpine tundra | Meadows and grassy slopes, often moist, open areas in grasslands, pinyon pine, oak-pine, pine, aspen, and spruce-fir |
Elevation | (1400–)1600–2800(–3400) m ((4600–)5200–9200(–11200) ft) | (1700–)2100–3600 m ((5600–)6900–11800 ft) |
Distribution |
CO; ID; MT; ND; NE; SD; UT; WY; AB; SK
|
AZ; CA; CO; ID; KS; MT; ND; NE; NM; NV; OK; OR; SD; TX; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; Mexico
|
Discussion | Collections of Erigeron radicatus often have been identified as E. ochroleucus var. scribneri; E. radicatus is distinctive in its branched caudex, villous cauline vestiture, more reduced leaf vestiture, involucral vestiture of hairs with purple cross walls, shorter disc corollas, and relatively few, readily falling pappus bristles. Erigeron radicatus often is essentially scapiform at relatively high elevation (2700–3400 m) in Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming; more eastern populations in the Great Plains, at lower elevations (1400–2600 m), have leafier stems but are hardly different in other features. Plants of some populations in Albany and Carbon counties, Wyoming, produce atypically shorter rays. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Early season forms of Erigeron flagellaris may consist of a basal rosette and a single, erect, scapiform, monocephalous stem; leafy runners usually develop quickly. Many polyploids of this species are indistinguishable from diploids; some polyploids have features suggestive of genetic influence of E. tracyi. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 294. | FNA vol. 20, p. 341. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Erigeron | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Erigeron |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | E. huberi, E. macounii | E. nudiflorus |
Name authority | Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 17, plate 122. (1834) | A. Gray: Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s. 4: 68. (1849) |
Web links |