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|accepted_name=Erigeron nematophyllus
|accepted_authority=Rydberg
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=32: 124. 1905
|year=1905
}}
|common_names=Needle-leaf fleabane
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Erigeron;Erigeron nematophyllus
|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 nematophyllus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 276
|treatment_page=page 293
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 4–18 cm; taprooted, caudex branches relatively short, thick. <b>Stems</b> erect (greenish), usually closely appressed-strigose, sometimes glabrate, eglandular. <b>Leaves</b> mostly basal or basal (persistent, persistent portion relatively long and slender-fibrous) and cauline (greenish); basal blades 1-nerved linear to linear-oblanceolate or oblanceolate or narrowly spatulate, (20–)30–80 × (0.5–)1–3 mm, cauline reduced distally (bases attenuate, not thickened and whitish-indurate) margins entire (apices obtuse or rounded), faces abaxially glabrous or glabrate, adaxially sparsely strigose, eglandular. <b>Heads</b> 1(–3 rarely, from branches at midstem). <b>Involucres</b> (3.5–)4-–6.5 × (5–)6–13 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 2–4 series (greenish or sometimes purple, margins thickened), strigose to loosely strigoso-hirsute, sometimes more densely so on distal 1/3, sparsely minutely glandular. <b>Ray</b> florets 15–55; corollas white to pink, 4–8 mm, laminae coiling. <b>Disc</b> corollas (2.8–)3.5–4.3 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> 2.2–2.9 mm, 2-nerved, faces and margins villoso-hirsute, sometimes more densely so on nerves; pappi: outer of setae, inner of 15–25 bristles.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Aug.
|habitat=Sagebrush to pinyon-juniper and yellow pine, shale and sandstone, ridges, bases of cliffs, shale gravel, clay flats with Artemisia
|elevation=1700–2900 m
|distribution=Colo.;Utah;Wyo.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Erigeron nematophyllus
|authority=Rydberg
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Aug.
|habitat=Sagebrush to pinyon-juniper and yellow pine, shale and sandstone, ridges, bases of cliffs, shale gravel, clay flats with Artemisia
|elevation=1700–2900 m
|distribution=Colo.;Utah;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1905
|special status=Endemic
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Erigeron
|species=Erigeron nematophyllus
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