![Imperfect Daisies[X] The flower in the photo may at first glance look like the Common Daisy, but it actually is the Daisy Fleabane! The difference is the Common Daisy has fewer, thicker petals, while the Daisy Fleabane has been likened to have the appearance of “a daisy cut into thousands of petals.”
The Daisy’s Fleabane is also known as the “prairie fleabane” and is Erigeron strigosus, not Erigeron Annuus. Annual fleabane,Daisy,Daisy Fleabane,Erigeron Strigosus,Erigeron annuus,Erigeron strigosus,Geotagged,Prairie Fleabane,Prairie fleabane,United States,flowers,wildflower](https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/3557/74415_small.jpeg?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1759968010&Signature=w7HSDtpy4OrNs%2BhynEI4AD6Yhls%3D)
Appearance
''Erigeron strigosus'' is an annual or biennial herb reaching heights of up to 80 cm . It has hairy, petioled, non-clasping, oval-shaped leaves a few centimeters long mostly on the lower part of the plant. One plant can produce as many as 200 flower heads in a spindly array of branching stems. Each head is less than a centimeter wide, containing 50–100 white, pink, or blue ray florets surrounding numerous yellow disc florets.
Naming
Varieties:⤷ ''Erigeron strigosus'' var. ''calcicola'' J. R. Allison - Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee
⤷ ''Erigeron strigosus'' var. ''dolomiticola'' J. R. Allison - Alabama
⤷ ''Erigeron strigosus'' var. ''strigosus'' - much of North America; introduced in China
⤷ ''Erigeron strigosus'' var. ''septentrionalis'' Fernald - much of North America; introduced in Europe
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