Description:

• Perennial herbs, prostrate
• Leaves alternate, entire or dentate, narrowly elliptic
• Capitula radiate, solitary, corymbose or paniculate, pedunculate
• Involucre hemispherical or campanulate; bracts in several rows, linear, often hairy
• Receptacle flat or slightly convex, epaleate
• Ray florets female, in 1, rarely 2, rows; corolla pinkish or white; tube cylindric, with short narrow, bifid lamina
• Disc florets few, bisexual, rarely functionally male, fertile; corolla yellow, tube cylindric, sometimes slightly widened above, 5(4)-lobed
• Anthers ecalcarate and ecaudate; with linear-lanceolate, apical appendage
• Style branches narrowly oblong, flattened, tip triangular with short pollen-sweeping hairs outside
• Cypselas oblong, compressed, usually margined, glabrous or pubescent
• Pappus bristles few or copious, in 2 ± distinct rows
• x = 9 (8, 13) (aneuploids, high polyploidy, B-chromosomes)

Nomenclature:

• *Erigeron L.
  • Linnaeus: 863 (1753)
  • Harvey: 86 (1865)
  • Henderson & Anderson: 360 (1966)
  • Hilliard: 67 (1977)
  • Bremer: 420 (1994)

Distribution & Notes:

• Global: Species ± 200, North and South America, Eurasia
• Southern Africa: Species 1: *Erigeron karvinskianus DC., naturalised, Northern Province, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Swaziland and Western Cape