Erigeron elmeri

Elmer's fleabane, Elmer's Fleabane

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Elmer's fleabane is a California native perennial found in the central Sierra Nevada Mountains on rocky ledges, crevices, and talus slopes at elevations of 1,300 to 3,300 meters. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces white ray flowers that may dry to pink or blue, with flower heads 7 to 10 millimeters in diameter. Growing with prostrate to slightly erect wiry stems 6 to 20 centimeters tall, it emerges from woody roots and slender rhizomes. Its narrow leaves are 5 to 20 millimeters long, linear to oblanceolate, and covered in strigose hairs. The distinctive flower heads feature 12 to 21 ray flowers with phyllaries that are strongly graduated and often have purple-tipped inner bracts.

Habitat: rock ledges, crevices, talus

Bloom period: Jun-Sep

Elevation: 1300-3300 m

Bioregions: c SNH.

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