Mexican Fleabane
Erigeron karvinskianus
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Mexican Fleabane
Identify Mexican Fleabane by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Confirm leaf surface: Pubescent (softly hairy).
- Confirm flower colour: White.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Head.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Asteraceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Mexican Fleabane.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Erigeron karvinskianus
- Genus
- Erigeron
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Native to
- Mexico
- Distribution
- Mexico, India, Malaysia, Southern Europe
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, West Bengal, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Karnataka, Delhi, Jammu & Kashmir, Manipur, Nagaland, Uttar Pradesh
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf surface
- Pubescent (softly hairy)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Mexican Fleabane itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Whiterecorded
- Flower arrangement
- HeadrecordedA dense, tight cluster of many small stalkless flowers, packed into a rounded or flat head.“The inflorescences hold one or more flower heads which are each about 1 cm (0.4 inches) wide.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Head
- Fruit
- Achene
Characters marked “recorded” are for Mexican Fleabane itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family — flowering plants only.
About Mexican Fleabane
Mexican Fleabane (Erigeron karvinskianus) is a herb in the Asteraceae family. In India it has been recorded in Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and 10 other states. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Asteraceae
Daisy/Sunflower family
Mexican Fleabane belongs to the Asteraceae family.
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