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Synonyms:
Trimorpha
lonchophylla.
Erigeron lonchophyllus. Asteraceae (Sunflower Family) Montane,
subalpine. Moist, rocky meadows. Summer. This is an easily overlooked wildflower, and it is apparently the first one recorded in Montezuma County, Colorado. The plant grows from one to twenty-four inches tall; its basal leaves are long and narrow and its stem leaves are few, alternate, and short; and flowers have numerous, but very short, rays. Phyllaries are in several rows, light green, and are purple on the sharp tips. (See next photograph.) Trimorpha lonchophylla is said by Weber to grow near timberline but this specimen was growing at about 8,400 feet on the rocky, grassy banks of a small stream. This plant was first collected by Thomas Drummond in Saskatchewan and was named Erigeron lonchophyllus by William Hooker in his Flora Boreali-Americana in 1834. G. L. Nesom renamed it Trimorpha lonchophylla in 1989 putting it in a genus named by Cassini in 1817. Both the Flora of North America and the Synthesis of the North American Flora accept Hooker's name, Erigeron lonchophyllus. "Lonchophylla[us]" means "lance-leaved". |
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Synonyms:
Trimorpha
lonchophylla.
Erigeron lonchophyllus. Asteraceae (Sunflower Family) Montane,
subalpine. Moist, rocky meadows. Summer. |
