About Erigeron aliceae Howell
Erigeron aliceae Howell is a species of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. It has the common names Alice Eastwood's fleabane and Alice's fleabane, and it was named to honor American botanist Alice Eastwood, who lived from 1859 to 1953. This is a perennial plant native to meadows and woodlands of the Pacific Northwest of North America, where it occurs in western Washington, western Oregon, and the northwestern corner of California, specifically Del Norte, Humboldt, Trinity, and Siskiyou Counties. An isolated population has been reported in the Sierra Nevada east of Yuba City, but this population may be an escape from cultivation. This plant produces branching stems that reach 50 to 100 cm, or 20 to 40 inches, in height. It has hairy, rounded basal leaves, and a few lance-shaped leaves growing along its narrow, hairy stems. At the top of each erect stem, the inflorescence holds between 1 and 7 flower heads. Each flower head measures 1 to 2 centimeters, or 0.4 to 0.8 inches, wide. The center of each flower head consists of numerous yellow disc florets, which are surrounded by a ring of up to 80 narrow ray florets that range in color from white to various shades of light purple and blue.
