Erigeron biolettii
Erigeron biolettii | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
(unranked): | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Tribe: | Astereae |
Genus: | Erigeron |
Species: | E. biolettii |
Binomial name | |
Erigeron biolettii Greene | |
Erigeron biolettii is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names streamside daisy and Bioletti's fleabane. It was named for University of California Professor of Viticulture and Enology Frederick Bioletti when he was an undergraduate.[1] It is endemic to California, where it is known only from the North Coast Ranges in and around Sonoma County. This is a perennial herb producing a branching erect stem 30 to 90 centimeters tall. It is hairy and very glandular. The narrow leaves are 2 to 4 centimeters long, equal in size and evenly spaced along the stem. The inflorescence is a wide array of flower heads at the tips of stem branches, each just over a centimeter wide. The head is lined with layers of densely glandular purple-tipped phyllaries and contains many yellow disc florets and no ray florets. The fruit is an achene with a pappus of bristles.