DWARF YELLOW FLEABANE
DWARF YELLOW FLEABANE
GENESIS NAME: Erigeron chysopsidis
DISTRIBUTION: WA, OR, CA, NV, ID
SEASON: Blooms May to July
MEDICAL USE: People take Canadian fleabane for swollen airways (bronchitis), sore throat, fever, swelling (inflammation), bleeding from the uterus, fluid retention, urinary tract infections (UTIs), worm infections, tumors, and diarrhea. Canadian fleabane is also used to treat a skin disease called granuloma annulare.
POISONOUS: Only to cats & dogs
EDIBILITY: Also known as dwarf mountain fleabane, golden fleabane is an attractive, low growing mat plant, with many erect stems from 3-15 cm high capped with a single flower head. The herbage consists of numerous spreading hairs on the stems and leaves. The leaves are narrowly oblanceolate and mostly basal. The flower heads are yellow, and may be with or without ray flowers. If rayless, as in variety austiniae, 20-60 female flowers are present as disk flowers. The involucre is 4-7.5 mm high and covered with spreading hairs, some of which may be glandular. The disk itself ranges from 9-17 mm wide.
FEATURES: Erigeron chrysopsidis is a North American species of flowering plants in the daisy family known by the common name dwarf yellow fleabane. ... Erigeron chrysopsidis is a very small perennial herb up to 15 cm (8 inches) tall, forming a taproot. Most of the leaves are low and close to the ground.
LEAVES: The herbage consists of numerous spreading hairs on the stems and leaves. The leaves are narrowly oblanceolate and mostly basal.
FRUITS: Dwarf yellow fleabane produces a cypsela or dry, single-seeded fruit, which is 2-nerved, hairy, and has an outer pappus of few, slender, inconspicuous bristles and an inner pappus of 15 to 25 bristles (Cronquist 1947; Cronquist et al. 1994; Nesom 2006). Distinguishing Varieties.
DISTRIBUTION: WA, OR, CA, NV, ID
SEASON: Blooms May to July
MEDICAL USE: People take Canadian fleabane for swollen airways (bronchitis), sore throat, fever, swelling (inflammation), bleeding from the uterus, fluid retention, urinary tract infections (UTIs), worm infections, tumors, and diarrhea. Canadian fleabane is also used to treat a skin disease called granuloma annulare.
POISONOUS: Only to cats & dogs
EDIBILITY: Also known as dwarf mountain fleabane, golden fleabane is an attractive, low growing mat plant, with many erect stems from 3-15 cm high capped with a single flower head. The herbage consists of numerous spreading hairs on the stems and leaves. The leaves are narrowly oblanceolate and mostly basal. The flower heads are yellow, and may be with or without ray flowers. If rayless, as in variety austiniae, 20-60 female flowers are present as disk flowers. The involucre is 4-7.5 mm high and covered with spreading hairs, some of which may be glandular. The disk itself ranges from 9-17 mm wide.
FEATURES: Erigeron chrysopsidis is a North American species of flowering plants in the daisy family known by the common name dwarf yellow fleabane. ... Erigeron chrysopsidis is a very small perennial herb up to 15 cm (8 inches) tall, forming a taproot. Most of the leaves are low and close to the ground.
LEAVES: The herbage consists of numerous spreading hairs on the stems and leaves. The leaves are narrowly oblanceolate and mostly basal.
FRUITS: Dwarf yellow fleabane produces a cypsela or dry, single-seeded fruit, which is 2-nerved, hairy, and has an outer pappus of few, slender, inconspicuous bristles and an inner pappus of 15 to 25 bristles (Cronquist 1947; Cronquist et al. 1994; Nesom 2006). Distinguishing Varieties.
DESCRIPTION:
Erigeron chrysopsidis is a North American species of flowering plants in the daisy familyknown by the common name dwarf yellow fleabane. It is found in the western United States: southeastern Washington, Oregon, extreme northern California, northern Nevada, Idaho.
Erigeron chrysopsidis is a very small perennial herb up to 15 cm (8 inches) tall, forming a taproot. Most of the leaves are low and close to the ground. Each stem produces only one flower head, with 20-60 yellow ray florets plus numerous yellow disc florets.
Erigeron chrysopsidis is a very small perennial herb up to 15 cm (8 inches) tall, forming a taproot. Most of the leaves are low and close to the ground. Each stem produces only one flower head, with 20-60 yellow ray florets plus numerous yellow disc florets.