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Erigeron barbellulatus
Greene
Family:
Asteraceae
Shining Fleabane
FNA
Resources
Guy L. Nesom in Flora of North America (vol. 20)
Perennials,
5-15 cm; taprooted, caudices relatively slender-branched.
Stems
erect to slightly basally ascending (shiny-white or purplish), strigose, eglandular.
Leaves
mostly basal (usually persistent) and cauline on proximal
1
/ 4 of stems; blades narrowly oblanceolate, 20-50 × 1.5-5 mm (bases abruptly widened, thickened, white-indurate, sheathing stem), margins entire, faces strigose, eglandular.
Heads
1.
Involucres
5.5-9 × 13-18 mm.
Phyllaries
in 2-3 series, sparsely and finely spreading-hairy, eglandular.
Ray florets
15-35; corollas white or blue, drying bluish, 7-15 mm, laminae weakly coiling.
Disc corollas
4.5-7 mm.
Cypselae
(2-)3-3.7 mm, 2-nerved, faces sparsely strigose;
pappi:
outer of setae, inner of 25-40(-50) bristles.
2
n
= 18.
Flowering Jun-Jul(-Aug). Gravelly or rocky slopes, sagebrush-pine to subalpine forest; 2100-3300 m; Calif.
The variability in cypsela size is unusual.
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