Common Name: Robin's Plantain
Genus: Erigeron pulchellus
Family Name: Asteraceae
Serendipity Ranch
Columbus, North Carolina
April 10, 2002
The flower heads of these stoloniferous perennials are an inch or more across; the villous or hairy stem, 6-12 inches long, elongates further after flowering. This Erigeron is native to the eastern U.S. and grows in rich woods chiefly in our mountains and piedmont. April-June [Justice, William S. and Bell, C. Ritchie, Wild Flowers of North Carolina. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1968]
This is a smaller plant than daisy fleabane, rarely growing more than two feet in height; it has hairy stems which usually are unbranched, and most of its foliage is in a hairy basal rosette. The flower-heads are also smaller, with only fifty to sixty ray-flowers. Robin's-plantain grows in open woods and along roadsides throughout the eastern and central states; its flowering period is from April to July. [Hylander, Clarence, J., The MacMillan Wild Flower Book. The MacMillan Company, New York, 1960]
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