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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Erigeron vetensis
|accepted_authority=Rydberg
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=32: 126. 1905
|year=1905
}}
|common_names=Early blue-top fleabane
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Erigeron glandulosus
|authority=Porter
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Erigeron porteri
|authority=S. F. Blake
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Erigeron;Erigeron vetensis
|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 vetensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 271
|treatment_page=page 288
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 5–25 cm; taprooted, caudices with relatively short, thick branches, often retaining old leaf bases. <b>Stems</b> erect, glabrous or sparsely hirsute to villous, densely glandular. <b>Leaves</b> basal (persistent) and cauline (petioles prominently ciliate, hairs spreading, thick-based); blades linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 20–90(–150) × 2–4(–7) mm, margins entire, faces glabrous or sparsely hispidulous, minutely glandular; cauline on proximal 1/3–2/3 of stems, gradually reduced distally. <b>Heads</b> 1. <b>Involucres</b> 4–8 × 7–15 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 3–4 series (midvein region greenish), sparsely to moderately hispid or hispido-villous, minutely and densely glandular. <b>Ray</b> florets 30–90; corollas usually bluish to purplish, sometimes white, drying pinkish, 6–16 mm, laminae reflexing. <b>Disc</b> corollas 3.2–5.3 mm (throats tubular). <b>Cypselae</b> 1.8–2.2 mm, 2-nerved, faces sparsely strigose; pappi: outer of inconspicuous, fine setae, inner of 18–25 bristles.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Jul(–Aug).
|habitat=Dry, rocky slopes, roadsides, usually open exposures, ponderosa pine with juniper and/or oak, lodgepole pine, spruce-fir
|elevation=(1700–)2300–3300 m
|distribution=Colo.;Nebr.;N.Mex.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p><i>Erigeron vetensis</i> is found in the Rocky Mountains.</p>
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name=Erigeron vetensis
|authority=Rydberg
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Erigeron glandulosus;Erigeron porteri
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Jul(–Aug).
|habitat=Dry, rocky slopes, roadsides, usually open exposures, ponderosa pine with juniper and/or oak, lodgepole pine, spruce-fir
|elevation=(1700–)2300–3300 m
|distribution=Colo.;Nebr.;N.Mex.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1905
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/eaa6e58056e40c9ef614d8f47aea294977a1a5e9/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V20_600.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Erigeron
|species=Erigeron vetensis
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