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LATIN NAME
Erigeron modestus
LONGEVITY
Annual
SEASON
Cool
ORIGIN
Native
DETAILS
• Also known as, “Plains fleabane”.
• Flowers March to July.
• This short-lived, low, hairy perennial is adapted to dry gravelly or rocky calcareous soils in open areas, on hillsides or slopes, in brushlands or cedar woodlands.
• Ancient Europeans believed that the odor of this genus repelled fleas, thus the name fleabane. This seems to have no basis.
• The Lakota Indians used the ray type flowers to mix with buffalo brains, spleen and gall bladder, then rubbed the mixture on the buffalo hides to bleach them.
• Fair browse value to deer and antelope, poor value to livestock.
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