Erigeron grandiflorus Hooker (Q2192)

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Erigeron grandiflorus is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Erigeron
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Erigeron grandiflorus Hooker
Erigeron grandiflorus is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Erigeron

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    taxon/id/Erigeron grandiflorus Hooker
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    Erigeron grandiflorus Hooker
    Erigeron grandiflorus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 20: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 7: Asteraceae, part 2. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Erigeron grandiflorus
    vergerette à grand capitule (French)
    large-flowered fleabane (English)
    Rocky Mountain alpine fleabane (English)
    large-flowered daisy (English)
    Rocky Mountain alpine fleabane (English)
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    Moss, E.H. 1983. Flora of Alberta. 2nd edition, revised by J.G. Packer. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. 687 pp.
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    Douglas, G.W., G.B. Straley, D.V. Meidinger & J. Pojar. 1998. Illustrated Flora of British Columbia. B.C. Ministry of Environment, Lands & Parks and B.C. Ministry of Forests. Victoria. Crown Publications. 8 vols.
    Flowering Jul–Aug(–Sep).
    rocky sites
    meadows
    timberline
    alpine
    2900–4200 m
    rhizomatous, fibrous-rooted, caudices or rhizomes crownlike or branches relatively short and thick.
    Stems erect to decumbent-ascending, sparsely to moderately pilose to villoso-hirsute, often stipitate-glandular over all or part.
    Leaves basal (persistent) and cauline (petioles equaling or shorter than blades);
    blades oblanceolate to obovate or spatulate, 10–60 (–90) × 3–8 (–14) mm, cauline abruptly or gradually reduced distally, margins entire (apices rounded), faces sparsely hirsutulous or villous to sparsely strigose or glabrate, sometimes sparsely glandular.
    Involucres 5–8 (–10) × 8–20 mm.
    Ray-florets 50–130;
    corollas blue to pink or purplish, rarely white, 7–11 (–15) mm (mostly 1–2 mm wide), laminae coiling.
    Disc corollas 2.4–4 (–5) mm.
    Cypselae 1.8–2.4 mm, 2-nerved, faces strigose;
    pappi: outer of setae, inner of (7–) 10–18 (–22) bristles.