Daisy Fleabane, Prairie Fleabane

Erigeron strigosus Muhl. ex Willd.

Asteraceae (Sunflower Family)

▲▼ young plants

▲▼ flowering plants

Daisy Fleabane, Rough Fleabane: (pp. 126-127, Weeds of the Great Plains; mentioned on pp. 136-137 in Weeds of the Northeast)

·         winter annual, biennial or summer annual native weed in the Aster family

·         produces clusters of small, white, daisy-like flowers in late spring, early summer

·         has lanceolate leaves; more rounded in basal rosette; more elongated up flowering stem

·         similar to White Heath Aster, except for leaves, and flowers which have many very narrow petals and a flattened, smooth yellow center disk

·         reproduces readily by seed

·         found in fields, pastures, roadsides

·         a similar species, annual fleabane, (mentioned on p. 127 of Weeds of the Great Plains; not in Weeds of the Northeast)

o   has smaller, more elongated basal leaves than daisy fleabane, rough fleabane

o   has thinner flowering stalk leaves and smaller flower heads

o   is more common in drier soils