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Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Annual
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Wet Mesic
Mesic
Plant Height: 2-5 feet
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Pink
White
Yellow
Other: Yellow centered disk
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Summer
Late summer or early fall
Edible Parts: Leaves
Eating Methods: Cooked
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Other info: No stratification needed.
Pollinators: Self
Wasps
Moths and Butterflies
Flies
Bees
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil

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Common names
  • Daisy Fleabane
  • Annual Fleabane
  • Whitetop
  • Eastern Daisy Fleabane
  • Lace Buttons

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Location: Aberdeen, NC (S. Sycamore street)
Date: May 16, 2023
Annual fleabag # 446; RAB p. 1068, 179-44-4; AG p. 264, 55-26-4;
Location: Maine
Date: 2022-07-07
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2016-05-23
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2016-05-23
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2014-05-31
Location: Canada
Date: 2017-09-10
Location: Hohe Tauern - Austria
Date: 2018-07-22

Date: c.1913
illustration from Britton and Brown's 'An illustrated Flora of th
Location: Hohe Tauern - Austria
Date: 2018-07-22

Date: 2018-06-15
Hairy stem and toothed lower leaves

Date: 2018-06-15
Location: Aberdeen, NC (S. Sycamore street)
Date: May 16, 2023
Annual Fleabane  # 446; RAB p. 1068, 179-44-4; LHB p. 1007, 194-5
Location: Brownstown Pennsylvania
Date: 2018-05-25
Location: Hohe Tauern - Austria
Date: 2018-07-22

Date: 2018-06-15
Location: Lucketts, Loudoun County, Virginia
Date: 4/15/2013
Location: Lucketts, Loudoun County, Virginia
Date: 2015-05-17
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2011-05-10
Location: Brownstown Pennsylvania
Date: 2015-07-08
Location: Goethe State Forest - Levy County, Florida
Date: 15-MAR-2008
Photo courtesy of Brian Ahern
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2011-05-10

photo credit: R. A. Nonenmacher
Location: Brownstown Pennsylvania
Date: 2016-06-18
a top choice of small native bees(Hover flies, sweat bees etc)
Location: near Keokuk, Iowa along Mississippi River
Date: 2013-03-05

Date: July
credit: John Cameron
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Comments:
  • Posted by jmorth (central Illinois) on Nov 5, 2011 2:18 PM concerning plant:
    Wildflower - likes to colonize open woods, dry prairies, fields, pastures, road sides, and disturbed areas.
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