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Erigeron vagus

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Erigeron vagus Payson [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Erigeron not on sheet
  • Erigeron vagus
Common name
  • Rambling fleabane, Flora of North America Vol. 20

Flora

Entry for Erigeron vagus Payson [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 vagus Payson [family COMPOSITAE], Univ. Wyoming Publ. Sci., Bot., 1: 179. 1926
Treatment Author(s)
Guy L. Nesom
Information
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. 2n = 18.
Phenology
jun-aug (summer)
Altitude range
2400–4400 m;
Distribution
USA Calif.USA Colo.USA Nev.USA Oreg.USA Utah.

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