Erigeron caespitosus

Family: Asteraceae
Common Name: tufted fleabane
Symbol: ERCA2
Description: Perennials, 5-25 cm; taprooted, caudices relatively thick. Stems decumbent-ascending, usually densely hirsute to hirtellous, eglandular. Leaves basal and cauline; basal blades (1-)3-nerved, narrowly oblanceolate to spatulate, margins entire, faces densely hirtellous, eglandular; cauline blades oblong-ovate to linear, - reduced distally. Heads 1-4. Ray florets 30-100; corollas white to bluish, 5-15 mm. Rocky or sandy, grassy hills, sagebrush-aspen, pinyon-juniper, to spruce and tundra northward; 1300-3000(-3600) m.