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Erigeron humilis

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Authors: Graham  

Botanical Description

Like E. uniflorus but usually even smaller (less than 12cm tall), with the bracts of the flowerheads deep purple and bearing dense long deep purple hairs, the latter also on the upper part of the flowering stem. Arctic and subarctic Europe to Alaska and mountains south, in tundra and damp stony hillsides.