Biology:Erigeron pulchellus

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Erigeron pulchellus
Erigeron pulchellus - Robin's Plaintain.JPG
Cross Plains, Wisconsin

Secure (NatureServe)
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Erigeron
Species:
E. pulchellus
Binomial name
Erigeron pulchellus
Michx. (1803) not (Willd.) DC. (1836) not Hook. 1834 nor Turcz. 1838[1]
Synonyms
Erigeron pulchellus flower

Erigeron pulchellus, the Robin's plantain, blue spring daisy or hairy fleabane, is a North American species of plants in the family Asteraceae.[2] It is widespread across much of the United States and Canada from Québec and Ontario south as far as eastern Texas and the Florida Panhandle.[3]

Erigeron pulchellus is a perennial herb up to 60 cm (2 feet) tall, spreading by means of underground rhizomes. It produces 1-9 flower heads per stem, each head containing sometimes as many as 100 white, pink, pale blue, or pale purple ray florets surrounding many yellow disc florets. The species grows in forests, roadsides, and the banks of bodies of water.[4]

Varieties[4]
  • Erigeron pulchellus var. brauniae Fernald - Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia
  • Erigeron pulchellus var. pulchellus - most of species range
  • Erigeron pulchellus var. tolsteadii Cronquist - Minnesota

References

  1. The International Plant Names Index
  2. Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, Duhl, Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians, Lone Pine Publishing, (2005) p 342, ISBN:978-1-55105-428-5,
  3. "Erigeron pulchellus", County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA) (Biota of North America Program (BONAP)), 2014, http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Erigeron%20pulchellus.png 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Nesom, Guy L., "Erigeron pulchellus", in Flora of North America Editorial Committee, Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA), New York and Oxford, http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242416507 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q5388423 entry