Erigeron biolettii

Greene

Man. Bot. San Francisco, 181. 1894.

Common names: Biolett’s fleabane
Endemic
Synonyms: Erigeron inornatus var. biolettii (Greene) Jepson
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 20. Treatment on page 314. Mentioned on page 261.

Perennials, 30–90 cm; taprooted, caudices woody, branches ascending, usually basally purplish. Stems ascending-erect, glabrous or sparsely hispid to hispido-pilose, densely glandular. Leaves cauline; blades narrowly oblanceolate, 20–40 × 2–4 (–5) mm, generally even-sized, margins entire, faces often sparsely hispid or hispido-pilose, densely glandular. Heads (discoid) (1–) 2–15 in loosely corymbiform arrays. Involucres 6–8 × 12–15 mm. Phyllaries in 3–5 series (usually purple apically), glabrous, densely minutely glandular. Ray (pistillate) florets 0. Disc corollas 4.5–6.5 mm (throats slightly indurate, not inflated). Cypselae 2–2.5 mm, 2-nerved, faces glabrous; pappi: outer of setae, inner of 22–38 bristles.


Phenology: Flowering Jun–Sep.
Habitat: Dry slopes, pine woods, mixed forest, rocks and ledges along rivers
Elevation: 50–1100 m

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... more about "Erigeron biolettii"
not tailed +, rounded +  and obtuse +
distinct +
subequal +
scarious +
usually triangular +  and linear +
usually deltate +  and lanceolate +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Guy L. Nesom +
Greene +
decurrent +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
oblanceolate +
equal-sized +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
rugulose +  and muricate +
Biolett’s fleabane +
not 2-lipped +  and actinomorphic +
yellow +, usually white +  and bluish or purplish +
beaked +, 2-ribbed +  and 5-ribbed +
subterete +, oblong +  and oblong-obovoid compressed +
fertile +  and bisexual +
0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br /> (0.65 cm6.5 mm <br />0.0065 m <br />) +
fertile +  and bisexual +
50–1100 m +
glabrous +, hispido-pilose +  and hispid +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Dry slopes, pine woods, mixed forest, rocks and ledges along rivers +
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 />) +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
turbinate;hemispheric +
1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
petiolate +  and sessile +
erect;spreading +
deltate +
not +  and scarious +
2-carpellate +
Flowering Jun–Sep. +
3-nerved +  and 1-nerved +
narrowly elliptic +  and linear-lanceolate +
Man. Bot. San Francisco, +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
exalbuminous +
branched +  and simple +
prostrate +  and decumbent +
ascending-erect +
sparsely hispid +  and hispido-pilose +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +  and smooth +
Erigeron inornatus var. biolettii +
Erigeron biolettii +
Erigeron +
species +
inflated +  and tubular +
90 cm900 mm <br />0.9 m <br /> (100 cm1,000 mm <br />1 m <br />) +
30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br /> (90 cm900 mm <br />0.9 m <br />) +
tree +, shrub +  and subshrub +