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middle cauline leaves ample, ovate to cordate, strongly clasping ; upper leaves similar but smaller ; 
heads solitary, the disk 12-20 mm. wide; phyllaries loose, equal, acuminate or attenuate, glandular, 
seeaptlesa oe, Hage rays 30-50, white, 13-25 mm. long, 2-4 mm. wide; | pubigass mm, 
long, m ring than in FE. peregrinus ; eclecueemaies acute, 0.3-0.4 mm. long; achenes 
mostly aieneewanicdity 5-nerved; pappus of 20-30 bristles. 
Moist, often rocky places, Hamid: Si nsition Zone; south side of the Columbia Gorge, Oregon. Type locality: 
Cascade Mountains, Oregon. April—Jun 
s eigersp aliceae Howell. Eastwood’s Daisy. Fig. 5584. 
Erigeron aliceae Howell, F poe Piaget 317. 1900. 
Eerie ie Howell loc 
9 Mg eee Bot. Obs. 2: 210, 1912. 
Fibrous-rooted perennial from a rather short rhizome or woody caudex, 3-8 dm. fall amply. 
leafy. Leaves hirsute on both sides, entire or coarsely toothed, the lowermost ones up to 20 ¢ 
long (including the petiole) and 3.5 cm. wide, the middle ones sessile, narrowly lanceolate a ae 
or ovate ; heads 1 to several, the disk mostly 2-20 1 mm. wide; phyllaries se vaeie 2 attenuate, subequal, 
conspicuously white-hirsute on the lower one- -fourth 8 three-fourths, glandular thence a the tip; 
rays as ce 1 mm. long and 2-3 mm. wide, white to pink- acute disk-corollas mostly 
3-4 m g; ne appe enianes 2 Santis: about 0. 25 ‘mm. long; achenes 2-nerved or sometimes 
Ae — pica of 20-30 bristles 
Moist or fairly dry soil in uae or open places in the mountains, Canadian and Hudsonian Mount 
Hood  ooa tag a Mountains, and‘in ~ oe Mountains = Oregon and seen “California; 
epi fi the Olympic Mountains, Washington. Type locality: top of Siskiyou Mountains near Waldo, Oregon. 
4. Erigeron coulteri Porter. Coulter’s Daisy. Fig. 5585. 
Erigeron coulteri Porter in Port. & Coult. Fl. Colo. 61. 1874. 
Erigeron frondeus Greene, Fi. Fran. 387. 1897. 
Erigeron leucanthemoides Greene, Leaflets Bot. Obs. 2: 211. 1912. 
Fibrous-rooted perennial from a slender rhizome or branching caudex; stems 1-6 dm. tall, 
usually amply leafy, spreading-hirsute at least above. Leaves hirsute, at least the lower bites 
generally toothed, the middle cauline ones mostly broadly lanceolate to oblong or ovate, tending 
‘s sping at the base, up to about . long and 3 , larger or smaller t he per- 
sistent or deciduous, mostly more petiolat e, low r ones; heads 1-4, the involucre 7-10 mm. high, 
its nes Bae phyllaries equal, attenuate, villous hirsute, Be) hairs with black cross- ee — 
the base; ray aye Sah white, 9-24 mm. long, 1.2-1.7 mm. wide; disk-corollas 3 ong ; 
eri itil a ore or les soo 0. 2-0. "38 mm. ees inner pappus of 20-25 bristles, the outer 
obscure or sanjay Se achenes 2-nerved. 
Meadows and stream Sant rite at rather high elevations in the mountains, Borea] Zone; norther 
and ee an ntana to northeastern Oregon southward irregularly to the southern Cascade Mageen Me. 
Sierra Nevada in California, the Wasatch Mountains vA _ ah, and the mountains of Colorado and northern New 
Mexico. Tata locality: Weston’s Pass, Colorado. July-A 
5. Erigeron specidésus (Lindl.) DC. Showy Daisy. Fig. 5586. 
Stenactis noreeAd Lindl. Bot. — ao: on arr 1833. 
Erig DC 
Prod. 5: 
More or less fibrous-root se peren iad from a woody caudex, the stems clustered, 1. 5-8 
tall, pei ready, naeraded giabr rous below the inflorescence. Leaves entir e, glabrous o an 
except toe the commonly ciliate margins, often triple-nerved, the lower oblanceolate or seatelate, 
petiolate, mostly deciduous, the others becoming sessile but fairly ample, the uppermost ones mostly 
lance olate ; heads 1-13, the involucre 6-9 mm. high, glandula ay gee ommonly with a very few long 
airs; rays 65-150, blue or rarely white, 9-18 mm. long, a m. wide; disk-corollas 4-5 mm. 
ong; style-appendages acute, 0.15-0.2 m m, long pappus of “30-30 bristles and ‘some ae outer 
setae ; achenes 2-ne rved or occasionally . -nerved. 
pen in woe ooded are, mostly in the foothills and at moderate elevations in the mountains, 
Tisaation Steg pee aeg Bri ish Columbia, Washington, northwestern Oregon, nor Be lao, and _ north- 
estern Mon bide: Deahts: “California” ; probably actually in northern regon so n Washington 
I une—Aug, 
A few of = resemble the otherwise more eastern and southern var. agg Pata: leg (Nutt.) Cronquist 
the Rocky Mountains and eastern Great Basin region, characterized by its broader (m ~ oe } upper leaves 
that tend to be less ae ‘ciliate: likewise, occasional specimens throughout the veneer re acranthus re- 
semble typical E. speciosus. 
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6. Erigeron subtrinérvis Rydb. var. conspicuus (Rydb.) Cronquist. 
ie ee Daisy. Fig. 5587 
Eee COnSPIEN RE | Rydb. Mem. N.Y ies 1: 400. 1900. 
Greene. Leatiets Bot. "ae 2: 215. 192. 
Princes sROEriNEr eis subsp. conspicuus Cronquist, Bull. Torrey Club 70: 271. 1943. 
Erigeron var. conspicuns Cronquist, Vasc. Pl. Pacif. Northw. 5: 193. 1955. 
Closely related to E. specie s and not always wasiried ee tinct, but more pubescent, the s 
leaves, os especially the seni ie evidently pubescent with long sp reading tale the ae 
of the leaves ir “ ee chiefly to ig mara on larger 
Open woodlands, usually in drier places than E. speciosus, Canadian and et Transition Zones; southern 
