Erigeron HYBRIDS
Fleabane
2-8
Oregon, United States and British Columbia, Canada

Erect plant
1-2 feet tall with a 2 feet spread.
Heads 1-1˝ inches wide, borne at the tips of the corymbosely clustered branchlets. rays are very numerous and are violet-blue disk flowers are yellow.
Midsummer with sporadic flowers into the fall.
Alternate, leaves glabrous except for ciliate margins, lower leaves oblanceolate to spatulate, narrowed to winged petioles, uppermost leaves mostly lanceolate, sessile.
 
 
 

 
The genus Erigeron goes back to Theophrastus and in Greek means “old man in spring.” This is in reference to the downy young leaves of several species.

 

 
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