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Erigeron compactus
Blake
Family:
Asteraceae
cushion daisy,
more...
Fern-Leaf Fleabane, fernleaf fleabane
[
Erigeron compactus var. compactus
]
Teague Embrey
FNA
Resources
Guy L. Nesom in Flora of North America (vol. 20)
Perennials,
2-10 cm; taprooted, caudices branched.
Stems
erect (scapiform, bracteate), finely strigose, eglandular.
Leaves
(persistent) mostly basal (leaf bases broadened or not, not thickened and whitish-indurate); blades linear, 4-20 × 0.5-1.5 mm, cauline bractlike or absent, margins entire, faces densely, finely strigose (hairs thin-based), eglandular.
Heads
1.
Involucres
5-8 × 7-17 mm.
Phyllaries
in 2-3(-4) series, finely and closely strigose (hairs thin-based), inconspicuously minutely glandular.
Ray florets
15-32; corollas white to pinkish, often with an abaxial lilac midstripe, 6-11 mm (tubes and laminae bases glabrous or glabrate), laminae tardily coiling.
Disc corollas
4.5-6 mm.
Cypselae
2.8-3.2 mm, 2-nerved, margins velutinous-ciliate, faces glabrous;
pappi:
outer of setae, inner of 30-40 bristles.
Flowering May-Jun. Dry, sandy or rocky soil, dunes, sagebrush, pinyon-juniper; of conservation concern; 1300-2900 m; Calif., Nev., Utah.
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