Distribution: Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to the Great Plains.
Habitat: Open places in the foothills, valleys and plains, often among sagebrush.
Flowers: May-July
Origin: Native
Growth Duration: Perennial
Conservation Status: Not of concern
Pollination: Bees, butterflies, flies, apomixis?
Perennial from a woody base and taproot, the stem 5-50 cm. tall, the herbage copiously spreading-hairy.
Leaves basal and cauline, oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, up to 8 cm. long and 8 mm. wide.
Heads several, the disk 7-15 mm. wide; involucre 4-7 mm. high, the bracts narrow, spreading-hairy; rays 50-100, 0.7-1.5 mm. wide, usually white, occasionally pale blue or pink; disk corollas 3.5-5 mm. long, slender, yellow but paler below; pappus of capillary bristles, with an outer row of shorter bristles.
Achenes slightly hairy.
Publication: Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 2: 147. 1818.
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var. intermedius – shaggy fleabane
Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to the Great Plains. - var. pumilus – shaggy fleabane Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington, where disjunct; otherwise Alberta to Colorado, east to the Great Plains.
PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Erigeron pumilus in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database
WA Flora Checklist: Erigeron pumilus checklist entry
OregonFlora: Erigeron pumilus information
E-Flora BC: Erigeron pumilus atlas page
CalPhotos: Erigeron pumilus photos
