Prairie fleabane facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Prairie fleabane |
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| Cedars of Lebanon State Park, Tennessee | |
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Erigeron
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| Species: |
strigosus
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Synonymy
Erigeron annuus subsp. strigosus (Muhl. ex Willd.) Wagenitz
Erigeron ramosus (Walter) "Britton, Sterns & Poggenb." 1888 not Raf. 1817 Erigeron ramosus var. beyrichii (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) Trel. Erigeron strigosus var. beyrichii (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) Torr. & A.Gray ex A.Gray Erigeron strigosus var. discoideus A.Gray Erigeron strigosus var. eligulatus Cronquist Erigeron traversii Shinners Phalacroloma strigosum (Muhl. ex Willd.) Tzvelev Phalacroloma septentrionale (Fernald & Wiegand) Tzvelev Stenactis beyrichii Fisch. & C.A.Mey. Stenactis septentrionalis (Fernald & Wiegand) Holub |
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Erigeron strigosus is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common names prairie fleabane, common eastern fleabane, and daisy fleabane.
Erigeron strigosus is native to eastern and central North America as far west as Manitoba, Idaho and Texas. It has also become naturalized in western North America as well as in Europe and China as a somewhat weedy naturalized species.
Erigeron strigosus is an annual or biennial herb reaching heights of up to 80 cm (32 inches). It has hairy, petioled, non-clasping, oval-shaped leaves a few centimeters long mostly on the lower part of the plant. One plant can produce as many as 200 flower heads in a spindly array of branching stems. Each head is less than a centimeter (0.4 inches) wide, containing 50–100 white, pink, or blue ray florets surrounding numerous yellow disc florets.
- Varieties
- Erigeron strigosus var. calcicola J. R. Allison - Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee
- Erigeron strigosus var. dolomiticola J. R. Allison - Alabama
- Erigeron strigosus var. strigosus - much of North America; introduced in China
- Erigeron strigosus var. septentrionalis (Fernald & Wiegand) Fernald - much of North America; introduced in Europe
