Robin Plantain

(Erigeron pulchellus)

 

Color Photograph: Midwestern wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. U.S.D.A. Soil Conservation Service, Midwest National Technical Center.

Line Drawing: Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada, Second Edition.

 

Robin Plantain (Erigeron pulchellus)

Identification: Flowers large (1 to 1.5 inches in diameter) for the genus with numerous (50 to 100) ray florets closely packed. Ray florets white to pink-blue. Flower heads few for the genus (1 to 5). Stem hairy with erect hairs. Upper leaves lanceolate, hairy. Lower leaves in a weak rosette, hairy, with long basal stalks, and outer margin bluntly toothed. Plant spreading by runners, commonly forming colonies of plants. Plant 0.5 to 1.5 inches in height.

Distribution: Southern Canada, southward to Florida and Texas.

Habitat: Robin Plantain is a species of open woods and fields.

Flowering period: April to June.

Robin Plantain (Erigeron pulchellus)

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The Erigeron type of flower, the large flower size, the weak rosette of hairy leaves with blunt teeth on the outer margin, and the runners are distinctive features of Robin Plantain.

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