Heads 1-1˝ inches wide, borne at the
tips of the corymbosely clustered branchlets.
rays are very numerous and are violet-blue disk
flowers are yellow.
Midsummer with
sporadic
flowers into the fall.
Alternate, leaves
glabrous except for ciliate margins, lower
leaves oblanceolate to
spatulate, narrowed to winged petioles,
uppermost leaves mostly lanceolate, sessile.
The genus
Erigeron goes back to
Theophrastus and in Greek means “old man in
spring.” This is in reference to the downy young
leaves of several species.
