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|accepted_name=Erigeron vernus
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Torrey & A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. N. Amer.
|place=2: 176. 1841
|year=1841
}}
|common_names=Early white-top fleabane
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Aster vernus
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=2: 876. 1753
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Erigeron;Erigeron vernus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Astereae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Erigeron]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Erigeron vernus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 263
|treatment_page=page 278
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Biennials </b>or short-lived perennials, 15–50 cm; rhizomatous, fibrous-rooted, caudices relatively thick and short, or elongate rhizomes, or appearing simple, sometimes producing rosulate offsets. <b>Stems</b> erect, sparsely strigose to strigoso-hirsute or villous, eglandular. <b>Leaves</b> mostly basal (persistent); blades narrowly to broadly oblanceolate to spatulate, 20–100(–150) × 4–25 mm (usually ± fleshy-thickened), margins entire or denticulate to mucronulate, faces glabrate eglandular; cauline mostly bractlike. <b>Heads</b> (1–)4–20(–25) in corymbiform arrays (from branches near apices). <b>Involucres</b> 3–4 × 5–11 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 2–3(–4) series, usually sparsely hirsute to strigose, sometimes glabrous, eglandular, sometimes viscid. <b>Ray</b> florets 25–40; corollas white, 4–8 mm, laminae not coiling or reflexing. <b>Disc</b> corollas 2.5–3.8 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> subterete, 1.2–1.6 mm, 4-nerved, faces sparsely strigose; pappi: outer of setae, inner of 16–25 bristles. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering (Mar–)Apr–Aug(–Oct).
|habitat=Moist to wet sites in sand or sandy clay or sandy peat, pine or pine-palmetto flatwoods and savannas, interdunal swales, road banks, ditches
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.
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name=Erigeron vernus
|authority=(Linnaeus) Torrey & A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Aster vernus
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering (Mar–)Apr–Aug(–Oct).
|habitat=Moist to wet sites in sand or sandy clay or sandy peat, pine or pine-palmetto flatwoods and savannas, interdunal swales, road banks, ditches
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. N. Amer.
|publication year=1841
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Erigeron
|species=Erigeron vernus
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