Erigeron nivalis Nuttall (Q2202)

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Erigeron nivalis is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Erigeron
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Erigeron nivalis Nuttall
Erigeron nivalis is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Erigeron

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    taxon/id/Erigeron nivalis Nuttall
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    Erigeron nivalis Nuttall
    Erigeron nivalis
    Nuttall
    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
    vergerette des neiges (French)
    snow 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.
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    Porsild, A.E. & W.J. Cody. 1980. Vascular Plants of the Continental Northwest Territories, Canada. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, Ont. 667 pp.
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    Harms, V.L. 2006. Annotated catalogue of Saskatchewan vascular plants. http://www.biodiversity.sk.ca/Docs/AnnotatedCatalogueSKVascPlants2006.pdf
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    Cody, W.J. 2000. Flora of the Yukon Territory. 2nd ed. National Research Press, Ottawa. 669 pp.
    Flowering May–Aug.
    rocky sites
    gravel bars
    roadsides
    meadows
    open woods
    subalpine areas
    1200–3700 m
    usually fibrous-rooted, sometimes taprooted, caudices simple or branched, sometimes weakly short-rhizomatous.
    Stems erect to basally ascending, sometimes sparsely hirsuto-villous, minutely glandular.
    Leaves basal (persistent) and cauline (petiole margins coarsely ciliate);
    basal blades oblanceolate to spatulate, 20–60 × 2–6 (–10) mm, cauline gradually reduced distally, margins entire or rarely with 1–2 pairs of shallow teeth, faces sparsely hirsuto-strigose, eglandular.
    Heads 1–6 (–8) in corymbiform arrays (on curved-ascending peduncles).
    Involucres 5–6 × 8–11 mm.
    outer 40–70, corollas white to pinkish 5.5–7 mm, laminae (filiform) erect, not coiling or reflexing;
    Disc corollas 4.4–5.5 mm.
    Cypselae 2–2.3 mm, 2-nerved, faces sparsely strigose;
    pappi: outer of setae, inner of (12–) 14–21 (accrescent) bristles.