Summary ³

Erigeron tenuis is a North American species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name slender-leaf fleabane. It is native to the south-central part of the United States from central Texas to the Florida Panhandle, north as far as Missouri and Kansas.

Description ⁴

Biennials or short-lived perennials, 10–45 cm; fibrous-rooted, caudices simple. Stems ascending (usually reddish proximally, branched distally), strigose, rarely hirsute proximally, eglandular. Leaves basal (commonly persistent) and cauline; basal blades oblanceolate to obovate or spatulate, 20–100(–130) × 4–20 mm, margins serrate or crenate to pinnately lobed, faces sparsely hirsute to strigoso-hirsute (hairs ascending), eglandular; cauline becoming narrower and entire (bases not clasping or subclasping), abruptly reduced near midstem. Heads (1–)3–20(–60) in loosely corymbiform arrays (usually from branches beyond midstem). Involucres (2–)2.5–4 × 5–10 mm. Phyllaries in 2–4 series, sparsely strigose, eglandular. Ray florets 60–120; corollas blue to pale lavender or white, drying blue to purplish, 3–5 mm, laminae not coiling or reflexing. Disc corollas 2–2.7 mm. Cypselae 1–1.2 mm, 2(–4)-nerved, faces sparsely strigose; pappi: outer of setae, inner of 11–15 bristles.

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1. (c) grbfrog, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by grbfrog
2. (c) Eric Keith, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Eric Keith
3. Adapted by Amber Leung from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erigeron_tenuis
4. (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/4942959

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• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
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• USDA PLANTS database
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