Erigeron allocotus

S. F. Blake

J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 27: 379. 1937.

Common names: Bighorn fleabane
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 20. Treatment on page 299. Mentioned on page 264.

Perennials, 10–18 cm; taprooted, caudices multicipital or branched. Stems erect to ascending (branched, brittle), hispido-hirsute (hairs brittle), minutely glandular. Leaves basal (often not persistent) and cauline; blades spatulate 15–30 × 1.5–4 mm, cauline gradually reduced distally (reduced to bracts on peduncles), margins usually 3-lobed (lobes linear to oblong-oblanceolate, about as wide as central portion of blades), sometimes 2-ternate or (cauline) entire, faces sparsely hispido-hirsute, minutely glandular. Heads usually 2–4. Involucres 4–5 × 6–9 mm. Phyllaries in 2–3 series, glabrous or sometimes sparsely hispid, densely minutely glandular. Ray-florets 20–40; corollas white to bluish, sometimes drying pink, 3–6 mm, laminae not coiling or reflexing. Disc corollas 2.5–3.5 mm. Cypselae 2–2.3 mm, 2-nerved, faces sparsely strigose; pappi: outer of setae, inner of 12–20 bristles.


Phenology: Flowering May–Aug.
Habitat: Dry, calcareous sites on cliff faces, ledges, talus slopes, ridgetops, rock outcrops, barren redbeds, sometimes with Utah juniper, mountain mahogany, or sagebrush
Elevation: 1300–2300 m

Discussion

The brittle, hispid vestiture, and multiple small heads (more than one per stem) with short rays of Erigeron allocotus are unusual among its putative relatives with 3-parted leaves.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Erigeron allocotus"
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 +
S. F. Blake +
decurrent +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
spatulate +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
rugulose +  and muricate +
branched +  and multicipital +
Bighorn fleabane +
not 2-lipped +  and actinomorphic +
pink +, white +  and bluish +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
beaked +, 2-ribbed +  and 5-ribbed +
subterete +, oblong +  and oblong-obovoid compressed +
fertile +  and bisexual +
0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br />) +
fertile +  and bisexual +
Mont. +  and Wyo. +
1300–2300 m +
strigose +  and hispido-hirsute +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Dry, calcareous sites on cliff faces, ledges, talus slopes, ridgetops, rock outcrops, barren redbeds, sometimes with Utah juniper, mountain mahogany, or sagebrush +
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 />) +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
turbinate;hemispheric +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br />) +
not coiling +
petiolate +  and sessile +
cauline +  and basal +
erect;spreading +
deltate +
entire +  and 2-ternate +
more or less dentate to pinnatifid +  and entire +
not +  and scarious +
2-carpellate +
Flowering May–Aug. +
3-nerved +  and 1-nerved +
hispid +  and glabrous +
narrowly elliptic +  and linear-lanceolate +
J. Wash. Acad. Sci. +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
exalbuminous +
branched +  and simple +
prostrate +  and decumbent +
erect +  and ascending +
hispido-hirsute +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +  and smooth +
Achaetogeron +  and Trimorpha +
Erigeron allocotus +
Erigeron +
species +
inflated +  and tubular +
90 cm900 mm <br />0.9 m <br /> (100 cm1,000 mm <br />1 m <br />) +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (18 cm180 mm <br />0.18 m <br />) +
tree +, shrub +  and subshrub +