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Canadian Fleabane, Conyza canadensis Family: Asteraceae
Canadian Fleabane
Erigeron canadensis
(Conyza canadensis)

Flowering time: June-October. Annual. Neophyte

Introduced, spreading on waste and arable ground, dunes, gardens and on roadsides.

Heads of small groundsel-like flowers, ray-florets whitish, the disc-florets yellow with 4 lobes. Calyx hairs sparse or absent. Pale-green narrow leaves, margins with well-spaced hairs, on erect, slightly hairy stems to 1m.

Similar: Bilbao Fleabane, C. floribunda. Taller with brittle stems to 140cm and over-wintering leaf rosettes.


Canadian Fleabane, Conyza canadensis     Canadian Fleabane, Conyza canadensis

Canadian Fleabane, Conyza canadensis


Canadian Fleabane, Conyza canadensis
Canadian Fleabane, Conyza canadensis
Holton Lee, Dorset. October 2012

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