Erigeron caespitosus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Genus: | Erigeron |
Species: | E. caespitosus |
Binomial name | |
Erigeron caespitosus | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Erigeron caespitosus is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae known by the common name tufted fleabane. It is native to western Canada (Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba) and the United States (Alaska and mountains of the western United States, primarily the Rockies, as far south as Arizona and New Mexico) [3] [4]
Erigeron caespitosus is a perennial herb up to 30 cm (12 inches) tall, forming clumps over a taproot and usually covered with stiff hairs. One plant will produce numerous flower heads in groups of 1–4 at the ends of upper branches. Each head contains as many as 100 white or blue ray florets surrounding many small yellow disc florets. [5]
Erigeron abajoensis, the Abajo fleabane, is a species of Erigeron in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Utah in the western United States, and has been found also in neighboring parts of Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It grows on sunny, dry, rocky slopes generally at elevations of 2,270 to 3,400 meters.
Erigeron divergens is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name spreading fleabane. It is native to western North America.
Erigeron compactus is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names cushion daisy, fernleaf fleabane, and compact daisy.
Erigeron utahensis is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Utah fleabane.
Erigeron glacialis, the glacial daisy, glacial fleabane, Subalpine fleabane, or wandering fleabane, is a western North American perennial plant in the family Asteraceae.
Erigeron pumilus, the shaggy fleabane, or vernal daisy, is a hairy North American species of perennial plants in the family Asteraceae. It is widespread across much of western Canada and the western United States, from British Columbia east to Saskatchewan and south as far as Oklahoma and the San Bernardino Mountains of California. There have been reports of the plant growing in Yukon Territory, but these were based on misidentified specimens.
Erigeron arenarioides is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names sand fleabane and Wasatch fleabane. It has been found only in the northern part of the state of Utah in the western United States.
Erigeron bellidiastrum, the western daisy fleabane or sand fleabane, is a species of fleabane in the family Asteraceae. It is native to northern Mexico and the western and central United States.
Erigeron corymbosus is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae known by the common name long-leaf fleabane. It is found in western Canada and the western United States.
Erigeron evermannii is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Evermann's fleabane.
Erigeron filifolius is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae known by the common names thread-leaf fleabane.
Erigeron garrettii is a rare North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Garrett's fleabane.
Erigeron glabellus is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, called the streamside fleabane.
Erigeron nanus is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name dwarf fleabane. It is native to the western part of the United States, in Wyoming, northern Utah, southern Idaho, and northeastern Nevada.
Erigeron nauseosus is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Marysvale fleabane. It native to the western part of the United States, in northern Utah and Nevada.
Erigeron ochroleucus is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, called the buff fleabane or buff daisy. It is native to western Canada and the western United States from Alaska and Yukon southeast as far as Colorado and Nebraska.
Erigeron ovinus is a rare North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, called the sheep fleabane. It has been found only in the southeastern part of the US state of Nevada.
Erigeron robustior is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name white cushion fleabane or Willamette fleabane. It is native to the southwestern Oregon and northern California in the western United States.
Erigeron speciosus is a widespread North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae known by the common names aspen fleabane, garden fleabane, and showy fleabane.
Erigeron subtrinervis, called the three-nerved daisy, the three-nerve fleabane, or the hairy showy daisy, is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It grows in various mountains of western Canada and the western United States: Rocky Mountains, northern Cascades, Black Hills, etc., from British Columbia and Washington state east to North Dakota and south as far as New Mexico.