Habitat: mountain glassland and stony places
Soil: with grit
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 leiomerus has flowers that are usually deep blue, but sometimes white, one on each short, upright stem, above tufts of narrow, spoon-shaped leaves.
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 compositus makes a compact cushion of divided leaves and short stems carrying pale pinky purple daisy flowers with a yellow centre. | |
| 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. | |
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| Erigeron glaucus makes clumps of slightly sticky grey-green (glaucous) foliage, and then has lots of daisy flowers, pale mauve with a yellow centre. | |
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| 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. |