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 glaucus 'Sea Breeze' is a beach aster, which makes clumps of slightly sticky grey-green (glaucous) foliage, and then has lots of daisy flowers, pale mauve with a yellow centre.