Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador
Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador
Asteraceae/ Astéracées - Aster Family
Erigeron canadensis L.
En: Canada horseweed, Canada fleabane
Fr: vergerette du Canada, érigéron du Canada
Provincial Status: Ni
Range: Temp. NA., intr. occ. in e/cNfld., but populations are ephemeral.

[=Caenotus canadensis (L.) Raf.]
[=Conyza canadensis (L.) Cronq.]
[=Conyza canadensis (L.) Cronq. var. glabrata (A.Gray) Cronq.]
[=Conyza canadensis (L.) Cronq. var. pusilla (Nutt.) Cronq.]
[=Conyzella canadensis (L.) Rupr.]
[=Erigeron canadensis L. var. canadensis]
[=Erigeron canadensis L. var. pusillus (Nutt.) B.Boivin]
[=Erigeron pusillus Nutt.]
[=Leptilon canadense (L.) Britton & A.Br.]
[=Leptilon canadense (L.) Britton & A.Br. var. pusillum (Nutt.) Daniels]
[=Leptilon pusillum (Nutt.) Britton]
[=Marsea canadensis (L.) V.M.Badillo]

[The first Nfld. report of Erigeron canadensis came from Howard Clase in 1997 (NFM), when he reported specimens from around the base of a tree on the MUN campus, St. John's, and from Murray's Nursery, Portugal Cove Rd.; both of these populations have proved to be ephemeral. However, a larger population of Erigeron canadensis was located in St. John's during a Nfld. Wildflower Society field trip (J. Maunder, pers. comm. Sept. 6, 2014), and another population was recently documented from along the TCH in Terra Nova Provincial Park (J. Maunder, pers. comm., June 30, 2015). While individual populations of Erigeron canadensis may be ephemeral in Newfoundland, it appears that this species is becoming more common in disturbed areas.]

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