Thank you for buying a native plant from Windflower Native Plant Nursery. Your purchase helps create a bit of Montana natural history in your own yard as well as restore a piece of native Montana. This plant was grown by seed I collected locally in an ethical manner.
Wandering Daisy, Subalpine Fleabane
(Erigeron peregrinus)
Plant color: pale blue to purple
Plant height: 8 to 18 inches
Bloom time: July & August, the blooms can last for a month.
Native habitat: Wide spread and common sub-alpine meadow plant in moist meadows, open forests and thickets.
Asters and daisies, how does one tell them apart? Generally asters bloom later in the summer or fall while daisies or fleabanes (another name for daisies) tends to bloom in the spring or early summer.
The ray flowers of daisies (fleabanes) tend to be more numerous and narrower than asters. So a very general simplified way to tell them apart is:
- Blooming in the spring or early summer, it is probably a daisy (fleabane).
- Blooming in the late summer or fall it is probably an aster.
- The bloom has 50 – 150 ray flowers it is probably a daisy (fleabane).
- he bloom has 15-30 ray flowers it is probably an aster.
Called “star-flower” by The Nlaka’pmx (Thompson Interior Salish Plateau) it is used as a design in basket making.
Erigeron means Early-old-man which refers to Theophrastus (who was the successor of Aristotle. The most important of his books are two large botanical treatises, which make up the most important contribution to botanical science during antiquity and the middle ages). Peregrinus means strange, foreign, exotic. I don’t know why this plant was given that species name because it is a very common subalpine plant.
Windflower Native Plant Nursery
PO Box 306
West Glacier, MT 59936
1.406.387.5527
www.windflowernativeplants.com