Stats

Lifespan: Biennial
Size: Small
Diet: Photosynthetic
Biome: Temperate grassland
Range: North America
Movement: Sessile
Breeding: Seeds
Defense: Toxins
Status: Common

About

A native North American wildflower in the daisy family, Philadelphia fleabane produces flower heads ringed with up to 150 slender pink-to-white ray florets — more than almost any other daisy. It thrives in disturbed ground and roadsides and has naturalized across Europe and Asia from its eastern North American origins.

Life cycle

1.
seed
A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
2.
sprout
A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
3.
sapling
A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
4.
mature
Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Erigeron
Species: Erigeron philadelphicus