| Annual Fleabane |
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| File size | 1353967 |
| Original date | 6/3/08 1:35 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 82.8mm |
| Exposure time | 1/500s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-FZ18 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Erigeron annuus Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Aster annuus, Erigeron heterophyllus
Synonyms: Aster annuus, Erigeron heterophyllus
Annual Fleabane is an annual herb with stems up to 1.5 m tall,
hairy to sparsely velvety, simple or branching above Leaves are
alternately arranged. Lowest leaves are stalked, up to 10 cm long. Stalks
are winged, up to 2 cm long. Upper stem leaves are stalkless, lanceshaped
to linear-lanceshaped, coarsely toothed to entire, with hairy margins,
velvety above and below, up to 9 cm long, 2 cm broad, reduced above.
Single flower heads are born leaf axils at the end of branches. Flower-
stalks are slightly expanded just below flower head, hollow. Ray flowers
are white to pinkish, linear, threadlike, about 100, up to 1 cm long, 1 mm
broad. Disk is up to 1 cm broad. Florets are yellow, 2-3 mm long, 5-lobed.
Achenes are velvety. Pappus of barbed capillary bristles to 2 mm long and
often with short outer row of scales. Annual Fleabane is native to
America, grown as a garden plant, and naturalized in the hill stations
of north India. Flowering: April-November.
| Identification credit: Tanay Bose | Photographed in Manali, Himachal Pradesh. |
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