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  Common Fleabane (Erigeron philadelphicus)
Daisy fleabane is a biennial or short-lived perennial.
It is similar to daisy fleabane, but common fleabane is shorter, its flowers are pinker, and its leaves are different (see bottom photo).
This characteristic distinguishes common fleabane from the similar species daisy fleabane and prairie fleabane (Erigeron strigosus).
www.ct-botanical-society.org /galleries/erigeronphil.html   (80 words)

  
  Fleabane - Erigeron philadelphicus
Fleabane is part of the Aster family and blooms from April through June.
Fleabane looks like a daisy, with about a 100 ray-like petals that can be white or pinkish.
Fleabane can be found all over the United States and Canada growing in meadows, along streams, roads and ditches.
www.blueplanetbiomes.org /fleabane2.htm   (159 words)

  
 Olympus FluoView Resource Center: Confocal Gallery - Fleabane Flower Head
Fleabane was readily available to the settlers since the plants are particularly abundant in the continent’s temperate zones.
Most varieties of fleabane exhibit flower heads that are composed of both a central, disk flower consisting of numerous tightly packed flowers that at first appear to be a single entity and ray flowers, which are the elongated petals evenly spaced around the periphery of the disk flower.
Fleabane Flower Head at High Magnification - Since the disk flower is the nectar- and pollen-rich section of the plant, it is an essential part of all fleabane varieties, although ray flowers are absent in some species.
www.olympusfluoview.com /gallery/plants/fleabaneflowerhead.html   (366 words)

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