Erigeron concinnus

Family: Asteraceae
Common Name: Navajo fleabane
Symbol: ERCO27
Description: Duration: Perennial Nativity: Native Lifeform: Subshrub General: Herbaceous perennials, much branching, to 50 cm tall, leafy, the herbage densely hispid or hirsute with spreading hairs, sometimes glandular, arising from a woody caudex with a taproot. Leaves: Alternate, basal or cauline, narrowly oblanceolate to linear, up to 10 cm long but usually shorter. Flowers: Heads small, radiate, hemispheric, the rays white, pink, or blue, reflexed, 50-100, to 15 mm long and 1 mm wide, the disk 7-15 mm wide, yellow, involucres 4-7 mm high, hirsute and sometimes glandular, phyllaries hirsute to villous, more or less glandular, in 2-4 series. Fruits: Achenes 2 nerved, sparsely strigose to hirsute. Pappus sparse, of subequal capillary bristles, the inner of bristles, the outer of broad scales. Ecology: Found in dry, sandy or gravelly soils, on mesas, slopes, in pine and juniper communities, from 3,000-8,000 ft (914-2438 m); flowering April-October. Distribution: Montana to British Columbia, south to New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Notes: Some good identifiers for this species are the perennial plants, the rays to 15 mm long, and the hirsute or hispid leaves and plant. SEINet Portal Network. 2020. http//:swbiodiversity.org/seinet/index.php. Accessed on November 02.