Erigeron modestus

Common name: Plains fleabane, Prairie fleabane
Family name: Asteraceae - Aster family
Size: to 40 cm


This wildflower has 3 growth forms:
1. Early spring- flower on long leafless stalk with lobed leaves
2.Later-becomes much branched lower leaves die, new small leaves appear along upper branches.
3.Fall- branches spread on the ground.

Flowers:

•  head to 2cm across, solitary on long leafless stalks.
• ray flowers 30-70 white or lilac
• disk flowers numerous, yellow

• scale-like phyllaries about the same size
• very hairy

Stems and leaves:

• hairy stems,
• Deciduous
• cluster of broader leaves at the base
• blades oblanceolate to spatulate to 7.5 cm long

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