Erigeron glacialis var. glacialis

Wandering fleabane

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Wandering fleabane is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, high Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, Warner Mountains, and eastern Sierra Nevada in clearings, talus slopes, and alpine meadows at elevations of 1,300 to 3,400 meters. Flowering from July to September, this plant produces white to lavender flowers with yellow centers in delicate daisy-like heads. Growing with slender stems 10 to 30 centimeters tall, it forms loose, spreading clusters in alpine and subalpine environments. Its leaves are glabrous or sparsely long-soft-hairy, with basal leaves forming a low rosette and stem leaves becoming progressively smaller upward. The plant's delicate inflorescence features peduncles covered in densely minute, slightly crinkled strigose hairs, giving it a distinctive appearance in high-elevation habitats.

Habitat: Clearings, talus, alpine meadows

Bloom period: Jul-Sep

Elevation: 1300-3400 m

Bioregions: KR, CaRH, SNH, Wrn, SNE

California counties: Fresno, Del Norte, El Dorado, Mono, Tulare, Tuolumne, Inyo, Modoc, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Kern, Plumas, Shasta, Tehama, Trinity, Alpine, Madera, Mariposa, Nevada, Placer, Sierra, Siskiyou, Humboldt, Lassen

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