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Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Plant Height: 1 to 3 feet (30-90 cm)
Plant Spread: 12 to 24 inches
Fruiting Time: Fall
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Blue
Lavender
White
Bloom Size: 1"-2"
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Late summer or early fall
Underground structures: Rhizome
Uses: Groundcover
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Resistances: Drought tolerant

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Common names
  • Daisy Fleabane
  • Oregon Fleabane
  • Showy Fleabane
  • Aspen Daisy
  • Aspen Fleabane
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Erigeron speciosus
  • Synonym: Erigeron speciosus var. macranthus

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Location: Pelican Creek Nature Trail, Yellowstone National Park
Date: 2022-08-24
Location: Pelican Creek Nature Trail, Yellowstone National Park
Date: 2022-08-24
Location: my Zone 7b garden in North Georgia Mountains
Date: 2023-04-25
Location: my garden in Dawsonville, GA (zone 7b north Geogia mountains)
Date: 2022-03-29
Location: my Zone 7b garden in North Georgia Mountains
Date: 2023-04-25
Location: Nationale Plantentuin Meise (Brussels)
Location: Johnston Canyon, Banff, Canada | August, 2022
Date: 2022-08-02

Courtesy Outsidepride
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Courtesy Outsidepride
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Location: Nationale Plantentuin Meise (Brussels)
Location: Main Botanical Garden at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow
Date: July
credit: Andrey Korzun
Location: Home
Location: Home
Date: 2016-07-02
Location: Home
Date: 2016-07-02
Location: Home
Date: 2016-07-02
Location: My garden, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; zone 3.
Date: 2012-07-15
Location: my garden in Dawsonville, GA (zone 7b north Geogia mountains)
Date: 2022-03-29
Location: Cascade of Time Garden, Banff, Canada | August, 2022
Date: 2022-08-01

Photo courtesy of Joy Creek Nursery
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Comments:
  • Posted by KFredenburg (Black Hills, SD - Zone 5a) on Jun 22, 2020 4:59 PM concerning plant:
    Range: From southern British Columbia to Baja California; east to New Mexico, South Dakota, and Montana.
Plant Events from our members
MrsBinWY On June 26, 2021 Transplanted
3 on 6-26-21 near Ex. 'Cheyenne Spirit' echinacea in "waterline bed" and 3 behind iron pot in back yard; 3 on 8-1-2021 along front walk with Penstemon cardinalis near 'Hildreth plum; 3 on 8-15-2021 in front rain garden north of Poterium tenuifolium; 2 on 8-21-2021 at NW side if front yard near Verbascum chaixii
MrsBinWY On May 28, 2021 Potted up
15 pots, most with 2-3 seedlings in each pot
MrsBinWY On March 27, 2021 Seeds germinated
activity in all 16 groups
MrsBinWY On March 21, 2021 Seeds sown
16 groups of seeds from Steve Aegerter Jan-21 (from Panayoti Kelaidis) in milk jug @ room temp
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Discussion Threads about this plant
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This is Erigeron speciosus, not E. grandiflorus by growitall Feb 16, 2014 2:45 PM 0

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