Erigeron viscidus Rydb.

  • Authority

    New York Botanical Garden. Herbarium of Dr. Per Axel Rydberg. Purchased, 1899. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden.

  • Family

    Asteraceae

  • Scientific Name

    Erigeron viscidus Rydb.

  • Description

    Species Description - A low cespitose perennial. Stems ascending, a little over 1 dm. high, more or less hirsute and glandular-pubcrulent, especially above; leaves 3-5 cm. long, oblanceolate, dark green, sparingly hirsute and ciliate on the entire margins: heads few: disk about i cm. high and 15 mm. broad: bracts very numerous, subequal in one series, narrowly linear, fuscous, acuminate, glandular-pubcrulent, but not hirsute: rays very numerous, pale blue, about 8 mm. long and .5 mm. wide.

  • Discussion

    This species is intermediate between E. glandnlosus and E. macrantliiis. It has the habit of the former, although larger, and the large heads and numerous narrow rays of the latter. It grows in wet ground, at an altitude of about 2700 m.

    Colorado: Near the Gray-Back Mining Camps, 1900, Rydberg & Vreeland, 541 6.

  • Distribution

    Colorado

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