Erigeron breweri

Brewer's fleabane

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Brewer's fleabane is a California native perennial found in rocky, open habitats of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Mountains at elevations of 1,500 to 2,500 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces white to lavender or pink flowers with ray petals 4 to 7 millimeters long that turn bluish when dry. Growing with prostrate to ascending stems 15 to 75 centimeters tall, it has a woody, slender rhizome-like caudex covered in short, reflexed bristly hairs. Its leaves are linear to oblanceolate, 5 to 40 millimeters long, evenly spaced along the stem and covered in bristly hairs. The flower heads are arranged in clusters of 1 to 5, with involucres 8 to 15 millimeters wide and densely covered in minute glandular hairs.

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.