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streamside fleabane
Erigeron glabellus
Water:
Light:
Habit:
Height:
Bloom color:
Bloom time:
medium - high
full sun - part shade
upright, spreading
12- 24"
pale purple
summer
Photo credit:
Kurt Stueber via CC BY-SA 3.0
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Streamside fleabane is a colony-forming species
Photo credit: Kurt Stueber via https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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Streamside fleabane is a colony-forming species
Photo credit: Kurt Stueber via https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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Streamside fleabane looks similar to our other fleabanes (pale purple disk-shaped flowers), but is unique in that it is colony forming and enjoys moist soils. Plant this species where you have a little sprinkler overspray, or perhaps near a vegetable garden. Good companions include nettle-leaf giant hyssop, lewis monkeyflower, pearly everlasting, sneezeweed, and fireweed.
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