Erigeron saxatilis

G. L. Nesom

Phytologia 69: 233. 1990.

Common names: Rock fleabane
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 20. Treatment on page 309. Mentioned on page 272.

Perennials, 3–5 cm; taprooted, caudex branches relatively thick, short, retaining old leaf-bases. Stems erect to ascending, glabrous, eglandular. Leaves basal (persistent) and cauline (petioles, when distinct, about equaling blades); basal blades linear-oblanceolate to slightly spatulate, 10–30 × 0.5–2 (–3) mm, cauline similar or slightly reduced distally, margins entire, faces sparsely strigose or glabrous, eglandular. Heads 1. Involucres 2.5–3.5 × 6–7 mm. Phyllaries in 3–4 series (purplish, midveins greenish yellow, not swollen), sparsely strigose or glabrous, eglandular. Ray-florets 20–29; corollas white, drying white to slightly lavender, 5.5–7 mm, laminae reflexing. Disc corollas 2.1–3 mm (veins not orange-resinous). Cypselae 1.3–1.6 mm, 2-nerved, faces sparsely strigose; pappi: outer of setae, inner of 9–13 (–15) bristles.


Phenology: Flowering Apr–Jul(–Oct).
Habitat: Crevices and ledges in canyons above Mogollon Rim
Elevation: 1300–2600 m

Discussion

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Lower Taxa

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not tailed +, rounded +  and obtuse +
distinct +
subequal +
scarious +
usually triangular +  and linear +
usually deltate +  and lanceolate +
paniculiform +, corymbiform +  and loose +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Guy L. Nesom +
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0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
linear-oblanceolate +  and slightly spatulate +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
decurrent +
linear;lanceolate oblanceolate or spatulate +
rugulose +  and muricate +
Rock fleabane +
not 2-lipped +  and actinomorphic +
white +  and slightly lavender +
0.55 cm5.5 mm <br />0.0055 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
beaked +, 2-ribbed +  and 5-ribbed +
subterete +, oblong +  and oblong-obovoid compressed +
fertile +  and bisexual +
0.21 cm2.1 mm <br />0.0021 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
fertile +  and bisexual +
1300–2600 m +
strigose +  and glabrous +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Crevices and ledges in canyons above Mogollon Rim +
disciform +  and discoid +
in loose , corymbiform or paniculiform arrays +  and singly +
indeterminate +
heterogamous +  and homogamous +
each +  and sessile +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (3.5 cm35 mm <br />0.035 m <br />) +
0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br />) +
turbinate;hemispheric +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
petiolate +  and sessile +
cauline +  and basal +
erect;spreading +
deltate +
not +  and scarious +
2-carpellate +
Flowering Apr–Jul(–Oct). +
glabrous +  and strigose +
narrowly elliptic +  and linear-lanceolate +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
exalbuminous +
prostrate +  and decumbent +
erect +  and ascending +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +  and smooth +
Achaetogeron +  and Trimorpha +
Erigeron saxatilis +
Erigeron +
species +
inflated +  and tubular +
90 cm900 mm <br />0.9 m <br /> (100 cm1,000 mm <br />1 m <br />) +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
tree +, shrub +  and subshrub +