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Prairie fleabane

Erigeron strigosus

Also called Rough Fleabane, Daisy Fleabane, Common Eastern Fleabane, Whitetop, Rough Daisy Fleabane, Rough Stemmed Fleabane, Whitetop Fleabane

Prairie fleabane
Photo: Mason Brock (Masebrock), Public domain
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
Canada to U.S.A.
Climate
temperate

About

Erigeron strigosus is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names prairie fleabane, common eastern fleabane, and daisy fleabane.

Erigeron strigosus is native to eastern and central North America as far west as Manitoba, Idaho and Texas. It has also become naturalized in western North America as well as in Europe and China as a somewhat weedy naturalized species.

Where it grows

Erigeron strigosus var. calcicola is found in the central basin of Tennessee, northwest Georgia, northern Alabama, and southwest/central Kentucky. It grows in limestone glades.

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 strigosus 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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