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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Erigeron piperianus
|accepted_authority=Cronquist
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Brittonia
|place=6: 197. 1947
|year=1947
}}
|common_names=Piper’s fleabane
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Erigeron;Erigeron piperianus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Astereae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Erigeron]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Erigeron piperianus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 265, 271
|treatment_page=page 288
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> (3–)6–12 cm; taprooted, caudices usually branched. <b>Stems</b> erect (distinctly white in proximal portions), usually strigose at least on distal 1/2, sometimes strigoso-hirsute or mixed-hispid, minutely glandular. <b>Leaves</b> mostly cauline (proximal internodes elongate; petioles prominently ciliate, hairs spreading, thick-based); blades linear to linear-oblanceolate, 20–40 × 1–1.5 mm (on proximal 1/2–2/3 of stems), (bases relatively thin, not sheathing) margins entire, hispido-ciliate, faces strigose. <b>Heads</b> 1. <b>Involucres</b> 3.5–4 × 5–10 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 2–3 series, hirsuto-villous, sometimes minutely glandular. <b>Ray</b> florets 25–40; corollas yellow, drying dark yellow (sometimes fading on drying and appearing whitish or creamy), 4–9 mm, laminae coiling. <b>Disc</b> corollas 2.5–3 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> 1.6–1.8 mm, 2-nerved, faces sparsely strigose; pappi: outer of setae, inner of 15–25 bristles.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Jun.
|habitat=Dry, open places, level to moderate slope, commonly with sagebrush, usually undisturbed, sometimes grazed and/or burned, sites
|elevation=(100–)200–400(–700) m
|distribution=Wash.
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name=Erigeron piperianus
|author=
|authority=Cronquist
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Jun.
|habitat=Dry, open places, level to moderate slope, commonly with sagebrush, usually undisturbed, sometimes grazed and/or burned, sites
|elevation=(100–)200–400(–700) m
|distribution=Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=Brittonia
|publication year=1947
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Erigeron
|species=Erigeron piperianus
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