Habitat: grassland and rocky places
Soil: with grit and humus
Height: 10 cm
Flowering: summer
Width: 20 cm
The fleabanes are mainly alpine plants, with neat daisy flowers, usually less showy than asters, but making up for it by having lots of flowers. These have a tight central disc, yellow, surrounded by lots of slender ray florets, white or mauve in most species, although there are fine yellow varieties.
Erigeron compositus makes a compact cushion of divided leaves and short stems carrying pale pinky purple daisy flowers with a yellow centre.
9 cm pot £3.00
| Erigeron acris subsp. angulosa is known as bitter fleabane and blue fleabane - and doesn't appear to have blue flowers! They are really white, flushed with pinkish purple. | |
| Erigeron 'Four Winds' is a straightforward species to grow. It makes mats of grey-green (glaucus) foliage, and then has lots of daisy flowers, pale mauve with a yellow centre. | |
| Erigeron glaucus makes clumps of slightly sticky grey-green (glaucous) foliage, and then has lots of daisy flowers, pale mauve with a yellow centre. | |
| Erigeron karvinskianus SDR7201 is a lovely daisy, producing an abundance of yellow-centred white flowers that turn deep pink as they mature. It is a great plant for walls and crevices. | |
| Erigeron leiomerus has flowers that are usually deep blue, but sometimes white, one on each short, upright stem, above tufts of narrow, spoon-shaped leaves. |