Erigeron flagellaris
Trailing fleabane
Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native
Trailing fleabane is a California native perennial found in the White and Inyo Mountains on open slopes and woodland areas at elevations of 2,200 to 3,000 meters. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces white flowers with occasional lilac undertones, arranged in heads 6 to 13 millimeters in diameter with 40 to 125 ray flowers. Growing with distinctive herbaceous runners that develop rooting plantlets at their tips, the plant forms low-growing clusters 3 to 15 centimeters tall with strigose stems that become somewhat woody. Its leaves are broadly oblanceolate to elliptic, ranging from 20 to 55 millimeters long, with entire or slightly dentate margins and a strigose surface. The plant develops a fibrous root system with a rarely branched woody caudex, allowing it to thrive in high-elevation mountain habitats.
Habitat: Open slopes, woodland
Bloom period: May-Aug
Elevation: 2200-3000 m
Bioregions: W&I
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