View source for Erigeron pulcherrimus

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|accepted_name=Erigeron pulcherrimus
|accepted_authority=A. Heller
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=25: 200, plate 340. 1898
|year=1898
}}
|common_names=Basin fleabane
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Erigeron bistiensis
|authority=G. L. Nesom & Hevron
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Erigeron pulcherrimus var. wyomingia
|authority=(Rydberg) Cronquist
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Erigeron;Erigeron pulcherrimus
|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 pulcherrimus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 276
|treatment_page=page 296
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> (5–)7–30(–35) cm; taprooted, caudex branches relatively short and thick. <b>Stems</b> erect (gray-green), moderately to densely gray-green-strigose (hairs white, stiff), eglandular. <b>Leaves</b> basal (persistent) and cauline (gray-green; petiole bases broadened or not, not thickened and whitish-indurate); basal blades linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 10–70 × 1–3(–5) mm, cauline little reduced for about 1/2–3/4 stems, margins entire, faces moderately to densely strigose (hairs white, stiff), eglandular. <b>Heads</b> 1. <b>Involucres</b> 5–7(–9) × 10–16(–20) mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 2–3(–4) series, hirsute to villoso-hirsute, minutely glandular. <b>Ray</b> florets 25–60; corollas white to pink or bluish, 8–15 mm, laminae coiling. <b>Disc</b> corollas 3.8–5.7 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> 2.5–3 mm, (2–)4(–5)-nerved, faces densely strigoso-sericeous; pappi: outer sometimes of setae or bristles (to 0.5 lengths of inner), inner of 32–50 bristles.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Jun.
|habitat=Clays, clay-silts, and gravelly soils, saline, gypseous, and seleniferous, commonly in salt desert scrub, pinyon-juniper
|elevation=1300–2100 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Colo.;N.Mex.;Utah;Wyo.
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name=Erigeron pulcherrimus
|author=
|authority=A. Heller
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Erigeron bistiensis;Erigeron pulcherrimus var. wyomingia
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Jun.
|habitat=Clays, clay-silts, and gravelly soils, saline, gypseous, and seleniferous, commonly in salt desert scrub, pinyon-juniper
|elevation=1300–2100 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Colo.;N.Mex.;Utah;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1898
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Erigeron
|species=Erigeron pulcherrimus
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