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Ontario Weeds: Rough fleabane

Author: OMAFRA Staff
Creation Date: 01 June 2000
Last Reviewed: 01 November 2003

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Excerpt from Publication 505, Ontario Weeds, Order this publication

Table of Contents

  1. Name
  2. Other Names
  3. Family
  4. General Description
  5. Stems and Leaves
  6. Flowers and Fruit
  7. Habitat
  8. Related Links

Name: Rough fleabane, Erigeron strigosus Muhl.,

Other Names: vergerette rude, Daisy fleabane, Rough daisy fleabane, vergerolle rugueuse, érigéron hispide

Family: Composite or Aster Family (Compositae) 

General Description: Very similar to Annual fleabane

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Rough fleabane.

Rough fleabane.

Rough fleabane.

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Stems & Leaves: Differing from Annual fleabane by having smaller, narrower, darker green leaves which are slightly rough with short stiff hair; only the basal and lower stem leaves having a few shallow teeth, the middle and upper leaves usually very narrow and without teeth.

Flowers & Fruit: The flower heads averaging slightly smaller in size and in numbers of ray florets.

Habitat: It occurs throughout Ontario and is distributed in similar habitats as Annual fleabane.

Related Links

... on general Weed topics
... on weed identification, order OMAFRA Publication 505: Ontario Weeds
... on weed control, order OMAFRA Publication 75: Guide To Weed Control

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