WILDFLOWERS OF NEW MEXICO

 
 

Erect, moderately to densely hairy, 6–8-inch tall stems have even-sized leaves with hairy surfaces and flower heads with showy blue rays and yellow disks. Note the stem, leaf surfaces, and phyllaries are covered with short, stiff hairs.


FLOWERS: June–September. Arrays of 1–13 flower heads have 100–150 blue to lavender, petal-like ray flowers, each 3/8–3/4-inch (9–18 mm) long, 1 mm wide; phyllaries (underneath the rays) are moderately to densely hairy.


LEAVES: Basal and alternate on stem. Basal leaves, spoon-shaped, to 3-inches long (80 mm), faces with spreading hairs, usually withered by blooming. Stem leaves alternate, blades oval to lance-shaped with pointed tips, much the same size up the stem to just below the flower heads, three nerves from base of leaf, bases clasp the stem; leaf surfaces covered with coarse, stiff hairs; margins entire and lined with ciliate hairs.


HABITAT: Sandy, rocky soils, riparian, meadows, disturbed areas; pinyon-juniper, oak-ponderosa, spruce-fir, aspen forests.


ELEVATION: 5,900–10,600 feet.


RANGE: CO, ID, MT, NE, NM, ND, SD, UT, WA, WY.


SIMILAR SPECIES: The look-alike Showy Fleabane, E. speciosus, in much the same habitat and range, has hairless leaf surfaces and phyllaries. Broad-leaf Fleabane, E. vreelandii, is covered with long, sticky, glandular hairs (use lens).


NM COUNTIES: Western half of NM at mid- to high elevations: Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Lincoln, Los Alamos, McKinley, Mora, Otero, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Socorro, Taos, Torrance.

THREE-NERVE  FLEABANE

ERIGERON  SUBTRINERVIS

Aster Family, Asteraceae

Perennial herb

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  1. 1.Moderately to densely hairy stems (left arrow).

  2. 2.Three main veins, or nerves, from base of leaf (middle arrow).

  3. 3.Short, stiff, rough hairs on the leaf surfaces (right arrow).

Phyllaries covered with fuzzy, stiff hairs.

Nearly even-sized leaves with clasping bases up the stem to the flower heads.

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