Lesser Daisy Fleabane, Erigeron strigosus, Native Minnesota Wildflower plant, Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden, Rough Fleabane

	Plants of the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden
	Common Name	Scientific Name	Plant Family	Garden Location	Prime Season
	Lesser Daisy Fleabane	Erigeron strigosus Muhl. ex Willd.	Upland	Composite	Late Spring to Fall
Other names and notes	(Rough Fleabane, Prairie Fleabane). There are a number of Fleabanes. They all have numerous rays of various colors surrounding a flat yellow disk. Lesser Daisy Fleabane has small flower heads, 1/2 inch wide with usually 50 to 100 rays. The leaves on the stem are mostly entire but do not clasp the stem, which will have hair that does not stand out like the Daisy Fleabane. Flowers are white but can be pinkish. Common in Minnesota and probably in your backyard garden.

Notes: This plant is indigenous to the Garden area. Eloise Butler catalogued it on Sept 6, 1907. For a comparison of the three Fleabanes see this page - Fleabanes. The plant is reported as native to all but nine widely scattered counties in Minnesota. It is native to all the United States except the arid southwest.

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References: Plant characteristics are generally from sources 15, 16, 30, 31, 33, W2 & W3. Distribution principally from W2 and also 31, 34 and W1. Planting history generally from 1, 4 & 4a. Other sources by specific reference. See Reference List for details.

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