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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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