[Sidenote: =Large Mountain Fleabane=
_Erígeron salsuginòsus_
=Lilac
Summer
West, etc.=]
A large, handsome kind, abundant in the higher mountains and growing in
moist places, as far east as Colorado. The stems are downy and leafy,
from one to two feet tall, the leaves are smooth or slightly hairy,
with bristle-like points, and the flowers are an inch and a half or
more across, with bright yellow centers and clear bright lilac rays,
not very narrow.
[Sidenote: =Yellow Fleabane=
_Erígeron àureus (Aplopappus Brandegei)_
=Yellow
Summer
Wash., Oreg.=]
A little alpine plant, about three inches tall, with downy stems,
thickish, gray-green leaves, covered with close white down and forming
a mat of foliage on the rocks at high altitudes. The flowers are rather
more than half an inch across, with a woolly involucre, dark yellow
center, and deep yellow rays, an unusual color among Fleabanes.
[Sidenote: =Seaside Daisy, Beach Aster=
_Erígeron glàucus_
=Violet, pink
Spring, summer
Cal., Oreg.=]
Very cheerful, sturdy-looking flowers, with stout, hairy stems, four
to ten inches tall, and stiffish, slightly hairy leaves, rather pale
in color. The handsome flowers are an inch and a half across, with
numerous violet, lilac, or pink rays and rather dark yellow centers.
This grows near the sea and is common on cliffs and sandy shores, where
it makes beautiful spots of bright color.
[Sidenote: =Skevish, Philadelphia Fleabane=
_Erígeron Philadélphicus_
=Pink, mauve
Spring, summer
U. S.=]
A pretty perennial, from one to three feet tall, usually soft and
hairy, the slender stems usually branching above and most of the leaves
toothed. The flowers usually form a loose cluster at the top, the buds
drooping, and the heads are from half an inch to an inch across, with
yellow centers and a very feathery fringe of pink or pinkish rays.
This grows in fields and woods. There is a picture in Mathews' _Field
Book_. _E. Còulteri_, the large White Mountain Daisy, is a beautiful
kind, from six to twenty inches tall, with bright green leaves, often
toothed, sometimes downy, and the flowers usually single, an inch and
a half across, usually with pure white rays. This grows in Yosemite
meadows and similar mountain places, in Utah, California, and Colorado.
_E. compósitus_ is a little Alpine plant, forming dense leafy mats,
easily recognized by the broad tips of the leaves being cut into lobes,
usually three. The flowers are an inch or more across, with violet or
white rays. This grows on the granite peaks around Yosemite, and in
other Alpine regions, as far east as Colorado.
[Illustration: Yellow Fleabane--E. aureus.
Seaside Daisy--Erigeron glaucus.