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Erigeron flagellaris (Whiplash Daisy, Whiplash Fleabane, Trailing Fleabane) Asteraceae (Sunflower Family) Foothills, montane, subalpine. Meadows. Spring,
summer. This very common Erigeron sends out runners (abundant in the lower half of the photograph immediately above and in the photograph immediately below) and colonizes large areas along roadsides and, as the top photograph shows, in meadows. (That's our pup, Willi Coyote, in the upper right of the photograph.) In the five and six o'clock positions of the photograph above, you can see where the runners have rooted and tiny new plants are growing. In this manner thousands of square feet of meadows are often dotted white with Erigeron flagellaris. The runners give rise to the common names: "Trailing Fleabane", and "Whiplash Daisy". The Latin specific epithet, "flagellaris", means "whip". Augustus Fendler first collected this plant in 1846 in New Mexico and it was described and named by Asa Gray in 1849. |
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Erigeron flagellaris
(Whiplash Daisy, Whiplash Fleabane, Trailing Fleabane) Asteraceae (Sunflower Family) Foothills, montane, subalpine. Meadows. Spring,
summer. Erigerons often fool us into thinking they will have pink ray flowers, for the buds are commonly tinged pink. But as the photograph shows, the drooping pink buds open brilliant white. Most Erigerons do, however, have ray flowers that range from white to pink to light blue. |
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Erigeron flagellaris (Whiplash Daisy, Whiplash Fleabane, Trailing Fleabane) Asteraceae (Sunflower Family) Foothills, montane, subalpine. Meadows. Spring,
summer. Numerous ray flowers are white; disk flowers are very densely packed and bright yellow. Basal leaves and most leaves on the runners are numerous, in clusters, light green, and narrow.
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Erigeron flagellaris
(Whiplash Daisy, Whiplash Fleabane, Trailing Fleabane) Asteraceae (Sunflower Family) Foothills, montane, subalpine. Meadows. Spring,
summer. |
Range map © John Kartesz,
County Color Key
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Range map for Erigeron flagellaris |