erigeron speciosus

Flowers of the Sequalitchew Prairie

erigeron speciosus

Description
Plant height: 15-80 cm tall.
Growth habit: erect perennial from fibrous roots.
Stems: clustered from a woody stem base, amply leafy,
generally hairless below the flower cluster.

Leaves: alternate, 1-2 cm broad, slightly clasping stem,
hairless or nearly so, often triple-nerved. Lower leaves
spatula- or lance-shaped, broadest toward tip, stalked,
mostly withering soon, the upper leaves lance-shaped,
becoming stalkless, but ample.

Flowerheads: pink to blue or rarely white, with 65-150
rays, 9-18 mm long and about 1 mm wide. Disk corollas
4-5 mm long. Involucre 6-9 mm high, glandular, with
narrow, linear, pointed bracts. Heads 1-13 in loose
clusters.

Flowering time: June-August.