Erigeron divergens

Erigeron divergens, the spreading fleabane, is a short-lived perennial or biennial herb of the Asteraceae family, native to western and central North America from the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains south into northern Mexico. Plants form a basal rosette of grey-green, narrowly spatulate to oblanceolate leaves and produce one or more erect to ascending, branching flowering stems 15 to 60 cm tall, all covered in short, spreading and somewhat stiff hairs that give the foliage a distinctly hoary appearance. Stem leaves are smaller, narrow and entire. The branching upper stems carry many small daisy-like flower heads, each with numerous slender white, pink or pale lavender ray florets surrounding a button of yellow disc florets. Flowering is prolonged from late spring into autumn. The achenes bear two rows of slender bristles. The species is common on dry plains, sagebrush flats, open woodland, road verges and disturbed ground from low to mid elevations.