Botanical name: Erigeron acris    Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Aster erigeron, Erigeron alpinus Lam. (illeg.)

Bitter Fleabane is a hairy herb, 15-50 cm tall. Basal leaves are elliptic to obovate, entire or sawtoothed at margin, 2.5-9.5 x 0.5-1 cm; stem leaves lanceshaped, stalkless above. Flower-heads are borne in corymbs or panicles. Involucre about 1 cm in diam. Involucral bracts are in 2-3-series, linear- lanceshaped, 3-6 mm long, glandular or hairy-velvet-hairy. Ray florets are trimorphic; ligules purplish, hardly exceeding the tubular florets, 3-5 mm long; female florets strap-shaped, about 3 mm long; disc florets about 5 mm long. Achenes are inverted-lanceshaped, about 2 mm long, sparsely velvet-hairy. Bitter Fleabane is widely distributed in the Temperate Northern Hemisphere. In India it is found in J&K, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, at altitudes of 2400-3200m. Flowering: July-September.

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