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
Holton Lee, Dorset. October 2012