Difference between revisions of "Erigeron serpentinus"

G. L. Nesom

Phytologia 72: 203. 1992.

Common names: Serpentine fleabane
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Revision as of 16:26, 18 September 2019

Perennials, 40–50 cm; taprooted, caudices simple. Stems erect (arising from crowns, without axillary leaf tufts), glabrous or glabrate, eglandular. Leaves mostly cauline; blades linear, 20–40 × 0.6–0.8 mm (mid and distal longer than internodes), barely reduced distally, margins entire, ascending-ciliate (cilia thin-based), faces glabrous, eglandular. Heads 1 or 2–4 in loosely corymbiform arrays. Involucres 4.5–5 × 9–12 mm. Phyllaries in 3–5 series (inner: margins narrowly scarious), glabrate (barely perceptible), densely and minutely glandular. Ray florets 9–13; corollas white, drying blue, 7–8 mm, laminae weakly coiling. Disc corollas 3.2–4 mm (throats slightly indurate, not inflated). Cypselae (mature size not observed), 2-nerved, faces sparsely strigose; pappi: outer of setae, inner of 26–32 bristles.


Phenology: Flowering May–Aug.
Habitat: Shrubby vegetation over serpentine
Elevation: 400–600 m

Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.