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|accepted_name=Erigeron canus
|accepted_authority=A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s.
|place=4: 67. 1849
|year=1849
}}
|common_names=Hoary fleabane
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Erigeron phoenicodontus
|authority=S. F. Blake
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Erigeron;Erigeron canus
|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 canus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 260, 276
|treatment_page=page 297
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 5–35 cm; taprooted, caudex branches relatively thick, usually retaining old leaf bases. <b>Stems</b> erect, densely white strigoso-canescent, eglandular. <b>Leaves</b> mostly basal (persistent, ± erect; leaf bases broadened or not, not thickened and whitish-indurate); blades linear-oblanceolate to oblanceolate, 20–100 × 2–5(–7) mm, cauline sharply reduced or 0 (restricted to proximal 1/4–1/2), margins entire, faces densely white strigoso-canescent, eglandular. <b>Heads</b> 1(–4). <b>Involucres</b> 5–7 × 9–16 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 3–4 series, densely hirsute to strigoso-hirsute, minutely glandular. <b>Ray</b> florets 20–50(–70); corollas white to light blue, 7–12 mm, laminae reflexing, sometimes tardily. <b>Disc</b> corollas 3.7–5.6 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> (nearly terete,) 2.8–3.5 mm, (8–)10–14-nerved, faces glabrous; pappi: outer of setae or bristles, inner of 24–36 bristles. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Jul(–Aug).
|habitat=Dry hills, grasslands, often in gravelly or shaley soil, sagebrush, pinyon-juniper, pine-oak, oak
|elevation=1700–2700 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Colo.;Kans.;Nebr.;N.Mex.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Utah;Wyo.;Mexico (Chihuahua).
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Erigeron canus
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Erigeron phoenicodontus
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Jul(–Aug).
|habitat=Dry hills, grasslands, often in gravelly or shaley soil, sagebrush, pinyon-juniper, pine-oak, oak
|elevation=1700–2700 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Colo.;Kans.;Nebr.;N.Mex.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Utah;Wyo.;Mexico (Chihuahua).
|reference=None
|publication title=Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s.
|publication year=1849
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Erigeron
|species=Erigeron canus
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