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villous-hirsute, scarcely or not at all sareemgt pe kage subequal, broad, dark green, usually 
mew bas 
somewhat indurate and heownish at the _ the tips scarious, merely acute; rays 20-40, white 
or blue, 5-11 Frances ong, 1. mm. wide; is lisk- corollas mostly 5-7 mm. long; style- ape 
acute, 0.3-0.4 mm. lo ong; pappus of 25-40 rather coarse, firm bristles and a few slender and 1n- 
conspicuous, short, outer setae; achenes 2-nerved, ovientie hairy above, usually glabrous or 
gla brate below 
open shorn in the foothills and at moderate ag pte in the mountains, mostly Arid Transition Zone; 
Pints *“Comaty to Mono County, California (east of the Sie crest), eastward to Elko and Nye Counties, Ne- 
vada. Type locality: near Virginia City, Nevada. May—Aug. 
46. ae eatonii A. Gray var. villésus Cronquist. Eaton’s Daisy. Fig. 5627. 
Greene, Pittonia 3: 293. 1898. 
Ee aoe on iueikons Howell, eS N.W. Amer. 319. 1900. 
atari eatoni subsp. villosus Cronquis' w ‘Beitcaia 6: 172. 1947, 
Erigeron eatont var. shiteiod Zicdauist, Vasc. Pl. Pacif. Ninth. Se 37599985; 
Peren nial with a taproot and crown or short, slightly branched caudex, 5-30 cm. tall, the 
stem oer ecumbent at the mostly reddish purple base; herbage strigose to vile. hirsute 
with “apprenid or closely ascending hairs Hej leaves well developed and conspicuous, narrow, 
acute, tapers tre os to the petiole, up t o 15 cm. long and 10 mm. wide, triple-nerved (occa- 
sionally linear and 1-n in depauperate see): Cauline leaves several, more or less 
one codices as hice Tina or a s 7, m r less naked-pedunculate, the disk 8-15 
wide ; involucre 5- ele oe ae eyiscaly se cihevillbine: iraute repel” Te ward the base; 
phyilaries subequal, green, oft sai purple-tipped and ee cy with a narrow da - midvein; rays 
20-50, mostly white, ate light blue, 5-10 mm. long, on wide ; disk-corollas mostly 
g; style-appendages obtuse to acuti a 0.1-0.2 m ai ng; pappus of 15-25 fragile 
5 mm. lon 
bristles with a fe ew very fine and inconspicuous, short, outer setae ; a mostly 2-nerved, shortly 
villous-hirsut te. 
Open place the mountains and foothills, mostly Canadian Zone; east (and occasionally just west) of the 
Coane: Moeniial summit in Oregon, extending northward to the We natchee Mountains of Washinavon and east- 
ve through the Blue ircxmtaine region fapiuding « extreme southeastern ees tcn) tot = ntains of central 
aho (as far ea: ‘ 
: nt n bri 
ern, occurring from southwestern Montana to Célor ado and Arizona. 
Erigeron eatonii A. Gray var. ai ae ne Cronquist, Vase. Pl. Pacif. Northw. 5: 175. 1955. 
(?Erigeron sonnei Greene, Pittonia 1: 218. plantagineus Greene, op. cit. 3: 292. 1898; E. eatont 
subsp. plantagineus Cronquist, Brittonia 6: 73. eR ) Pubescence of the leav ves, stems, and a achenes averaging 
s} coa wok Bas PPE Se i i i e 
47. Erigeron decimbens Nutt. Willamette Daisy. Fig. 5628. 
Erigeron decumbens Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. II. 7: 309. 1840. 
Perennial with a taproot and crown or short, slightly branched caudex, mostly 1.5-5 dm. ee 
the stems decumbent at the mostly reddish purple base; herbage strigose. Basal leaves and som 
r most of the only gradually reduced cau ae ones triple- -nerved, the sal ones up to 25 cm. eae 
k neul 
de ; involucre 3.5-6 mm. high, more or less hirsute and usually obscurely visct 
phyllaries slightly or scarcely cp tale bi or dark pilin to brownish; rays 20-50, blue or a 
6-12 mm. lon gt —2 mm. wide; disk-c as 2.5-4.0(4.5) mm. long; style- appendages oper 
acutish, 0.1-0 ccarettig pappus of ie fragile ‘pristles, occasionally with a few very fine 
a oe ie outer setae; achenes 2-nerved, finely hairy. 
places, Humid Transition Bese: Willamette River drainage of western Oregon. Type locality: “Rocky 
Mousisins, towards the ty <a ast. 2 
Eri n decumben “ie r Cronquist, Vasc. Pl. Pacif. Northw. 5: 175. 1955. (Erigeron 
dirediene. achite. eameatiae a sre 6:,174,. 1947) Stouter tad more rabust en a. Sepecet E. soe 
bens; pines © 6-8 mm. high; eg often broader than in typical E. decumbens, u m. or more wide; 
rays up to 20 long and 3 mm. wide; disk-corollas 3.5—-5.0 mm. long. Chiefly in Humboldt rane Trinity — 
ties, F stitertsia, & patenting to ee County, C wifcenia, and also southern Klamath County, Oregon. Type ocal- 
ity: valley of South Yager Creek, Humboldt County, C alifornia. 
48. Erigeron flexudsus Cronquist. Flexuous Daisy. Fig. 5629. 
Erigeron flerttosus Cronquist, Brittonia 6: 174. 1947. 
Perennial with a taproot and short, gong branched caudex, mostly 1-3 dm. tall, ~ stems 
slende?” oa often flexuous, decumbent at the base; herbage strigose, the hairs under the he ads 
: ed or th 
s se t n lea nche 
4-5 mm. high, finely glandular a more or ai prelttig hair iry; phyllaries ec ual or nearly so; 
ink 3 , 1.44-2.0 mm. wide: disk-corollas Po long ; style-ap- 
pen : ).1-0. : : s of see bristles, commonly with a few 
eet and inconspicuous, short, outer setae ; achenes 2-ne finely hairy. 
en 
rocky places in forest, Canadian Zone; Trinity Mountains, rt, 
Trinity Counts. June-July. ee oe ee California. Type locality: Trinity Alps Reso 
