Erigeron canadensis
Erigeron canadensis L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 1.1 m
- wide
- 38 cm
Asteraceae
Formerly Caenotus pusillus, Conyza canadensis, Conyza parva, Conyza rufescens, and 13 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- New WorldKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 15 cm to 2.1 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 15 cm to 61 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, creamRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (5)
- Simplified Chinese
- 飞蓬, 加拿大蓬, 加拿大飞蓬
- Asturian
- picachón
- Dutch
- Canadese fijnstraal
- Chinese
- 小篷草, 小蓬草, 小蓬草*(小飞蓬）
- Slovenian
- kanadska suholetnica
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 2.0
- 3D model: Erigeron canadensis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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