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Early bluetop fleabane

Erigeron vetensis

Early bluetop fleabane
Photo: Patrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM, CC0

Early blue-top fleabane is a North American perennial daisy-family herb, up to about 50 cm tall, that grows in dry, open sites in conifer forests. It is best grown in full sun with lean, well-drained soil and little water.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Tree, Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Lean, gritty, well-drained soil.
Temperature
Hardy to cold winters; native to mountain climates in the western United States.
How easy
Easy
Native range
WC. U.S.A.

About

Erigeron vetensis is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name early blue-top fleabane. It is native to the western United States (primarily in the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico but with an isolated population in Nebraska).

Erigeron vetensis grows in dry, open sites in openings in conifer forests. It is a perennial herb up to 50 centimeters (20 inches) tall. It generally produces only one flower head per stem. Each head contains 30–90; blue, purple, or white ray florets surrounding numerous yellow disc florets.

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 vetensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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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