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Erigeron muirii
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Holotype of Erigeron muirii A. Gray [family ASTERACEAE]
Type of Erigeron muirii A.Gray [family ASTERACEAE]
Isotype of Erigeron muirii Gray, A. [family COMPOSITAE]
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Name
Identification
Erigeron muirii
A. Gray
[family
ASTERACEAE
] (stored under name); Verified by A. Gray,
1882
Related name
Erigeron muirii
Aster pygmaeus
Erigeron grandiflorus
Erigeron glandiflorus
Common name
Muir’s fleabane, Flora of North America Vol. 20
Flora
Entry for Erigeron muirii A. Gray [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 20,
Names
Erigeron muirii
A. Gray
[family
COMPOSITAE
], Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts, 17: 210. 1882
Erigeron grandiflorus
Hooker
subsp. muirii (A. Gray) Hultén [family
COMPOSITAE
]
Treatment Author(s)
Guy L. Nesom
Information
Perennials, 3–10(–12) cm; rhizomatous, fibrous-rooted, rhizomes or caudices simple, relatively short and thick. Stems erect, densely cobwebby-lanate (hairs white), eglandular. Leaves basal (persistent) and cauline; blades oblanceolate to subspatulate, (10–)20–60 × 2–10 mm, margins entire, faces lanate, eglandular; cauline blades oblong to linear-oblong, gradually reduced, bractlike. Heads 1. Involucres 8–10 × 12–20 mm. Phyllaries in 2(–3) series (purple beneath pubescence), densely and closely lanate, sparsely glandular (glandularity obscured). Ray florets 60–100; corollas white, often drying pinkish, 8–13 mm (mostly 1–2 mm wide), laminae coiling. Disc corollas 3.5–5 mm. Cypselae 1.9–2.2 mm, 2-nerved, faces strigose-hirsute; pappi: outer of setae, inner of 13–20 bristles. 2n = 18.
Conservation Status
of conservation concern;
Phenology
jul-aug (summer)
Altitude range
300–1000 m;
Distribution
USA Alaska.Canada Yukon
Discussion
Erigeron muirii is known from Herschel Island in northern Yukon. Its densely lanate vestiture gives the whole plant a gray-green aspect.
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