Erigeron oxyphyllus

Wand-like fleabane daisy

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 2B.3

Wand-like fleabane daisy is a rare (CNPS 2B.3) California native perennial found in the southern Desert region in rocky hillsides around seeps or springs, canyons, and cliff bases at elevations of 700 to 1,100 meters. Flowering from May to June, this plant produces white to lavender or blue-tinged ray flowers 6 to 9 millimeters long, with delicate petals that slightly curl at the tips when dry. Growing 5 to 50 centimeters tall with ascending stems that are glabrous and without glands, it emerges from a woody, thick-branched taproot. Its leaves are oblanceolate, becoming progressively smaller and more linear toward the stem's top, with sparse, minute strigose hairs. The plant forms between 1 to 8 flower heads in compact clusters, each involucre 4 to 6 millimeters long with nearly equal phyllary bracts.

Habitat: Rocky hillsides around seeps or springs, canyons, cliff bases

Bloom period: May-Jun

Elevation: 700-1100 m

Bioregions: DSon

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