Erigeron allocotus
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Erigeron |
| Species: | E. allocotus
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Erigeron allocotus is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Bighorn fleabane. It has been found only in the Bighorn Mountains of north-central Wyoming and southern Montana.[1]
Erigeron allocotus is a short, branching shrub rarely more than 18 cm (7 inches) tall. Leaves are 3-lobed. The inflorescence generally consists of 2 or 3 flower heads per stem, each head with sometimes as many as 40 small yellow disc florets and surrounded by a ring of up to 40 white or blue ray florets.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
- ^ Flora of North America, Erigeron allocotus S. F. Blake, J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 27: 379. 1937. Bighorn fleabane
- ^ Blake, Sydney Fay 1937. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 27(9): 379–380 diagnosis in Latin, description and commentary in English
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