USDA and NRCS Identifier NRCS Logo
USDA.gov Web Site PLANTS photo banner
PLANTS Home about PLANTS PLANTS Team Partners of PLANTS What's New at PLANTS National Plant Data Center Web Site Help using PLANTS Contact PLANTS
 
 Search the PLANTS Web site
 Name Search

PLANTS Topics
 
 
PLANTS Image Gallery
 
 
Download PLANTS data
 
 
Related tools
 
 
 
You are here: Home / PLANTS Profile Printer-Friendly Printer-Friendly
PLANTS Profile
Alabama Arizona Arkansas Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Massachusetts Mississippi Missouri Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Texas Vermont Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Newfoundland Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island Greenland Saint Pierre and Miquelon

 

Erigeron acris L.
bitter fleabane

       
Symbol:    
Group:    
Family:    
Duration:    
Growth Habit:    
Native Status:  
  
  
  



   
Common Names:
 
 
Click on the image below to enlarge it and download a high-resolution TIFF file.
Line Drawing of Erigeron acris L.
Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 3: 441. Courtesy of Kentucky Native Plant Society. Scanned by Omnitek Inc. Usage Requirements.
 
More Information:
 

Images:
Erigeron acris L.

See all the Erigeron thumbnails at the PLANTS Gallery
 

Distribution:
Erigeron acris L.

View Native Status
Distribution Map Legend

See U.S. county distributions (when available) by clicking on the map or the linked states below:

USA (AK, CA, CO, ID, ME, MI, MN, MT, OR, SD, UT, WA, WY), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NT, NU, ON, QC, SK, YT)
 

Related Taxa:
Erigeron acris L.

View 477 genera in Asteraceae, 191 species in Erigeron or click below on a thumbnail map or name for species profiles.
Distribution of Erigeron acris L. ssp. debilis (A. Gray) Piper. .
Erigeron acris ssp. debilis
bitter fleabane
Distribution of Erigeron acris L. ssp. decoloratus (H. Lindb.) Hiitonen. .
Erigeron acris ssp. decoloratus
Distribution of Erigeron acris L. ssp. droebachiensis (O.F. Müll.) Arcang.. .
Erigeron acris ssp. droebachiensis
Distribution of Erigeron acris L. ssp. kamtschaticus (DC.) H. Hara. .
Erigeron acris ssp. kamtschaticus
bitter fleabane
Distribution of Erigeron acris L. ssp. politus (Fr.) Schinz & R. Keller. .
Erigeron acris ssp. politus
bitter fleabane
Plant is native (blue) Native   Plant is introduced Introduced
Related taxa legend
 

Classification:
Erigeron acris L.

Click on a scientific name below to expand it in the PLANTS Classification Report.
   
Kingdom Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass Asteridae
Order Asterales
Family Asteraceae – Aster family
Genus Erigeron L. – fleabane
Species Erigeron acris L. – bitter fleabane
 

Threatened and Endangered Information:
Erigeron acris L.

The related entities and synonyms italicized and indented below are listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete protected plant list for that location.

Maine:
Trimorpha acris [=ERACD2]
bitter fleabane              Possibly Extirpated
 

Wetland Indicator Status:
Erigeron acris L.

Nat. Ind. Reg. 1 Reg. 2 Reg. 3 Reg. 4 Reg. 5 Reg. 6 Reg. 7 Reg. 8 Reg. 9 Reg. 0 Reg. A Reg. C Reg. H
FACU,FAC FACU NO FAC FAC NO NO NO FACU FACU FAC FAC NO NO
Interpreting Wetland Indicator Status
 

More Accounts and Images:
Erigeron acris L.

View species account from ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

View species account and distribution map from Jepson Interchange (University of California - Berkeley).

View species account, photographs, and distribution from University of Washington Burke Museum.

 
 
Time Generated: 10/31/2008 05:56 AM MDT