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crevices in rocky canyons at low elevations, Arid Transition Zone; Yakima County, Washington. Type 
A vi at Creek ana ticity. Yakima County. May. —Oct 
17. Erigeron vagus Payson. Loose Daisy. Fig. 5598. 
Erigeron vagus Payson, Univ. Wyo. Pub. Sci. 1: 179. 1926, 
Perennial from a diffuse, oe st pede caudex which sometimes connects to - we te 
taproot; herbage and involucre more or less evidently spreading-hirsute and glandular. Lea 
crowded on the short aerial stems, meetly 3-lo sak with short, broad, r oo nded lobes ; head solitary, 
borne on short scapiform peduncle up to 5 cm. long; disk 8-16 mm. wide; involucre 5-7 m 
high, the phyllaries subequal, purple at least —— the tips; ray 5 25, 35, white or sink 4- 
long, 1-2 mm. wide; Aisle beitatias 3.0-3.8 mm. long; style- candies’ acute, 0.2-0.25 mm. ace 
pappus of about 20 bristles; achenes Alte or 
Shifting talus slopes at high altitudes in the mountains, Ar-_tic-Alpine Zone; 180 stage cand pa, ang agg: 
Nevada, California (Sierra Ne mses - gic ortheastern Oregon (Wallowa Mountains). Type locality 
maski, LaSal Mountains, Utah. July-A 
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