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Erigeron tweedyi

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Holotype of Erigeron tweedyi Canby [family ASTERACEAE]
Erigeron tweedyi Canby [family ASTERACEAE]
Isotype of Erigeron tweedyi Canby [family ASTERACEAE]
Erigeron tweedyi Canby [family ASTERACEAE]
Isotype of Erigeron tweedyi Canby [family ASTERACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Erigeron tweedyi Canby [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Canby, 1888
Related name
  • Erigeron tweedyi
  • Erigeron tener
Common name
  • Tweedy’s fleabane, Flora of North America Vol. 20

Flora

Entry for Erigeron tweedyi Canby [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 tweedyi Canby [family COMPOSITAE], Bot. Gaz., 13: 17. 1888
Treatment Author(s)
Guy L. Nesom
Information
Perennials, 4–20 cm; taprooted, caudices multicipital crowns or branches relatively short and thick. Stems erect to ascending or decumbent-prostrate, densely strigose (hairs relatively thin), eglandular. Leaves basal (persistent) and cauline; basal (silvery) blades spatulate, broadly elliptic, 50–250 × 5–13 mm, cauline abruptly reduced distally, margins entire, faces densely strigoso-sericeous (hairs gray-white), eglandular. Heads 1–4. Involucres 4–6 × 9–14 mm. Phyllaries in 3–4 series, finely hirsuto-strigose, sparsely minutely glandular. Ray florets 20–50; corollas blue to purple, sometimes white, 5–9 mm, laminae not coiling or reflexing. Disc corollas 3.1–4.3 mm. Cypselae 2–2.5 mm, 2-nerved, faces strigoso-sericeous; pappi: outer of setae, inner of 20–30 bristles.
Phenology
jun-aug (summer)
Altitude range
(1300–)1600–3000 m;
Distribution
USA IdahoUSA Mont.USA Wyo.

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