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Desert yellow fleabane

Erigeron linearis

Also called Linear Leaved Daisy, Linear Leaved Fleabane, Desert Yellow Daisy, Desert Yellowdaisy

Desert yellow fleabane
Photo: Walter Siegmund (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Native range
W. Canada to W. U.S.A.

About

Erigeron linearis is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name desert yellow fleabane or narrow leaved fleabane. It is native to western North America.

Where it grows

Erigeron linearis is native to the mountains of western North America from British Columbia as far south as Wyoming, northern Nevada and Mono County in California. The species grows in open rocky slopes associated with the shrubs sagebrush, bitterbrush or juniper.

Uses

Some Plateau Indian tribes used desert yellow fleabane as a poultice for treating sores.

Other Erigeron plants

Dwarf horseweed · Lance-leafed Darwin's Shrub · Thin-leafed Darwin's Shrub · Fleabane · Abajo fleabane · Bluewater fleabane · Blue Fleabane · Erigeron adscendens · Hall's fleabane · Stalked fleabane · Alice Eastwood's fleabane · Erigeron allochrous

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Erigeron linearis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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