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Erigeron vagus
Payson
Family:
Asteraceae
Rambling Fleabane
Walter Fertig
FNA
Resources
Guy L. Nesom in Flora of North America (vol. 20)
Perennials,
2-4(-5.5) cm (cespitose, relatively loose); taprooted, caudices diffuse with extensive system of relatively long, slender, rhizomelike branches.
Stems
erect (simple, ± scapiform), sparsely hirsute, sparsely to densely minutely glandular.
Leaves
basal (persistent) and cauline; blades spatulate, (5-)10-25(-30) × 4-10 mm, distal cauline bractlike, margins 3- 5-lobed (lobes rounded), ultimately entire, faces finely puberulent, minutely glandular.
Heads
1.
Involucres
5-7 × 8-16 mm.
Phyllaries
in 2-3 series (purplish), hirsute to villoso-hirsute (hairs without colored crosswalls), minutely glandular.
Ray florets
25-40; corollas white to pink, 4-7 mm, laminae coiling.
Disc corollas
3-3.8 mm.
Cypselae
1.9-2.2 mm, 2-nerved, faces finely strigoso-hirsute;
pappi:
outer 0 (or inconspicuous), inner of ca. 20 bristles.
2
n
= 18.
Flowering late Jun-Aug. Rocky habitats, especially taluses, ponderosa pine, bristlecone pine, alpine meadows; 2400-4400 m; Calif., Colo., Nev., Oreg., Utah.
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